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Piranesi's masterful representations of architecture are now reprinted in large format alongside corresponding contemporary photographs. Monuments of ancient, early Christian, Renaissance and Baroque Rome (Colosseum, Forum, fountains, etc.) with auxiliary notes on both the etchings and photographs.

"In this study, Eleanor Winsor Leach offers a new interpretation of Roman painting as found in domestic spaces of the elite classes of ancient Italy. Because the Roman house fulfilled an important function as the seat of its owner's political power, its mural decoration provides critical evidence for the interrelationship between public and private life. The painted images, Leach contends, reflect the codes of communication embedded in upper class...

In 1638, Gianlorenzo Bernini began the ambitious architectural project of designing and constructing massive twin bell towers atop St. Peter's basilica. But the project failed spectacularly. This volume tells the story of the bell towers, presenting both visual and documentary evidence.