Le antichità romane
Le antichità romane is a set of engraved plates of Roman antiquities by Giovanni Battista Piranesi and his son Francesco, published in Rome in 1784 by the Salomoni press for antiquarians and architects. The pictures show masonry blocks with inscribed sepulchral stones, tombs and funerary altars drawn in precise line with plain shading, offering a designer clear models of Roman lettering layout, stone courses and classical monument proportions.
