Caption
Mons Ianiculus, Buildings on the Janiculum in Rome, Ancient monuments, Antiquae Urbis Splendor, print, album page, View of the Janiculum hill with various buildings. Text in Latin in the lower margin. Numbered upper right: 32., printmaker: Jacobus Laurus, Italy, printer (person): Giacomo Mascardi, Rome, in or after 1637, printer (person), paper, etching, height 179 mm x width 233 mm, This print is part of a set of 158 prints (title prints), which appeared in four parts. Parts one and two appeared in 1612. The third part appeared in 1615 and part four appeared in 1628. In 1637 Vitale Mascardi published the first reissue of the entire set with numbering., representation of real building (either existing or having existed), Janiculum, A black and white engraved view of a hilltop complex with a central domed rotunda surrounded by rectangular buildings, terraces, and stairways, showing arched windows, columned facades, pitched roofs, and small square plinths on the open paved areas, with a few human figures standing and walking on the terraces, trees on the slopes flanking the site, and an elevated arched aqueduct or bridge on one side.
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Photo12/Liszt Collection
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LZT26B30_034
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