![]() 3 ).40 Mariette may have based his hopes that Piranesi would join his party on the artist's entry on the Pantheon in Le Antichitd Romane, which was free of commonly held opinions. As Diderot wrote in the entry "Fact" in the Encyclop6die, a thing has the certainty of fact if it has been witnessed empirically by the eyes.39 Mariette proposed sending Piranesi a copy of the drawing for his future book (fig. The use of a drawing documenting the state of the monument instead of a text, as was usually done in antiquarian literature, is significant: it is an absolutely modern type of argument, rooted in the new epistemology in which a visual experience is preferable. he had in his collection a drawing of the Pantheon by Marten van Heemskerck that showed the two columns in place a century before their supposed introduction there by Alexander VII. ![]() ![]() ![]() Staatliche Museen zu Berlin-Preusslischer Kulturbezitz. Berlin, Staatliche Museen, Kupferstichkabinett (formerly in Mariette's collection) (photo J8rg P Anders).
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