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I vestigi dell'antichita di Roma

Du Pérac, Etienne, -1604 · 1773 · In Roma : Presso Carlo Losi · 20 pictures

An 1773 Roman printed book of engraved views of ancient Rome's ruins, issued in Rome by Carlo Losi and based on the drawings of Étienne Du Pérac, a sixteenth-century French artist. The plates show ruined vaults, arches, columns and walls among overgrown hillsides, with small figures for scale, offering a designer compositions of ruin, scale and layered terrain in fine line engraving.

Architecture -- Italy -- Rome · Rome (Italy) -- Antiquities

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