Major
Paestum 
The Greek temples at Paestum in southern Italy were almost unknown until
the 1750s. They became better known through publication. This book by
Thomas Major was one of the first that enabled architects of Northern
and Western Europe to study the three temples at this site. Along with
the work of Stuart and Revett, these engravings were a valuable source
for the Greek revival at the end of the 18th century. Piranesi later produced
a series of twenty engravings of the ruins at Paestum in 1778.
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| Detail. Major, Thomas. The ruins of Pæstum, otherwise Posidonia, in Magna Græcia, 1768. |
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