Disegno della prima Machina rappresentante gl'Orti Esperidi: Incendiata per comando di Sua Eccellenza il Sign[or] Don Lorenzo Colonna, ... nella Vigilia de Gloriosi Santi Apostoli Pietro, e Paolo l'Anno 1765

Posi, Paolo, Palazzi, Giuseppe, Vasi, Giuseppe, Vasi, Giuseppe [Bearb.], Palazzi, Giuseppe [Ill.] · 1765 · 2 pictures

Disegno della prima Machina, an 1765 Italian engraved plate by Paolo Posi, Giuseppe Palazzi and Giuseppe Vasi, showing a temporary festival structure for Rome's Saints Peter and Paul celebrations, commissioned by Lorenzo Colonna and later burned. The engraving shows a symmetrical baroque facade of columns, niches with statues, and tiered towers against a sky with smoke, with boats and figures on the water in the foreground. A designer might take its strict frontal symmetry, layered ornament and etched sky texture as a model for architectural stage or theatre-set compositions.

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