Here are some splendid tempera on paper paintings, which provided the originals for the engravings in “Vestigia delle Terme di Tito e loro interne pitture”, published...
Here is a series of views of 19th-century Rome, by famous Roman engraver and painter Bartolomeo Pinelli (1781-1835).
After completing his studies between Bologna’s Fine...
The “Resting Hermes” at the National Archaeological Museum of Naples is a beautiful bronze sculpture found in Herculaneum in the second half of the 18th century.
The portrait...
Here is a series of Roman postcards sent straight from the 1700s: illustrations inspired by “Accurata e succinta descrizione topografica delle antichità di Roma”...
Niccolò Gualtieri (1688-1744) was a conchologist and a malacologist – scientific terms that refer to two specific fields within zoology, specifically devoted to studying...
For some twenty years, Vincenzo Leonardi – the author of these splendid illustrations – collaborated with Cassiano Dal Pozzo (1588-1657), a famous member of...
The engravings in “Le antichità di Ercolano esposte” (“Herculaneum’s Antiquities on Display”) were curated between 1757 and 1787 by a group of historians, archaeologists,...
Here is a gallery of engravings Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778) made to exalt the magnificence of ancient Roman architectures despite their state of neglect...
Here is a gallery dedicated to ceiling roses by engraver and architect Carlo Antonini (1740-1821).
Antonini himself collected these beautiful engravings – a selection of...
