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The paper relates that the Grand Tour was the term used first to describe a tour of the culture and antiquities of the Mediterranean region, and as Barry Bergdoll notes, this tour was also one of the major means of disseminating Neoclassical taste, especially among the English. The paper looks at how with reference specifically to architect Giovanni Piranesi, Bergdoll writes that Piranesi's style "transformed perception of the ruined remains of the Roman, Etruscan, and eventually even Greek past for several generations of artists, architects, and clients" (Bergdoll 15). The paper explains that Neoclassicism refers to a style in which forms and details from Greek and Roman architecture were revived in a new form.

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"The Grand Tour was the term used first to describe a tour of the culture and antiquities of the Mediterranean region, and as Barry Bergdoll notes, this tour was also one of the major means of disseminating Neoclassical taste, especially among the English. With reference specifically to architect Giovanni Piranesi, Bergdoll writes that Piranesi's style "transformed perception of the ruined remains of the Roman, Etruscan, and eventually even Greek past for several generations of artists, architects, and clients" (Bergdoll 15). Neoclassicism refers to a style in which forms and details from Greek and Roman architecture were revived in a new form. One of the ways the ideas so gleaned were brought back to England was from..."

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