The Fountains of Rome: Selected Plates from the Classic Le Fontane Di Roma, 1660-1675

by Giovanni Battista Falda and Giovanni Francesco Venturini

Dating from the 1600s, these rare views of celebrated Roman fountains and gardens represent some of the finest and most accurate landscape drawings of the Italian Baroque period. The full-page engravings demonstrate expert handling of perspective in a wealth of settings that incorporate architecture, details of topography and garden design, and portraits of seventeenth-century Romans at leisure. Featured sites include St. Peter's Basilica within the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0486493857
• ISBN13: 9780486493855
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 8.5" x 11.3"