Piranesi s challenge: Rethinking the origins of European architecture

Enlightenment figure who produced an elaborate series of drawings and etchings to support his following argument on the origins of European architecture: Roman architecture derived not from the Greek but from the Etruscan, which, according to him, derived from Egypt.Based on his meticulous archaeological examinations in excavations, he developed a history of architecture that was not based on the East-West division and the separation of the continents.However, Johann Joachim Winckelmann's approach rooting the origin of Roman architecture in the Greek