Disegno della Seconda Machina rappresentante i Giuochi Atletici: Incendiata per comando di Sua Eccellenza il Signor Don Lorenzo Colonna Gran Contestabile del Regno di Napoli ... la sera delli XXIX. Giugno Festa dei Gloriosi Santi Apostoli Pietro, e Paolo ... l'Anno MDCCLXVI.
An 1766 Italian festival book, a printed design for a temporary theatrical machine built for the feast of Saints Peter and Paul in Rome, credited to Paolo Posi as illustrator and Giuseppe Vasi as engraver and editor, held by Heidelberg University Library. The two pictures are plates of the same symmetrical neoclassical facade with a central clock or sun ornament, flanking domed towers, columns and statues, and a stepped stage in front with small crowds and a tent at lower left. A designer could draw on the rigid, tiered architectural symmetry and the engraved hatching for stage-set or monumental facade compositions.
