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Giovanni Battista Piranesi's rendering of the Colosseum "revealing the plan and exposing the structure. Piranesi's labels ... inform us of the location in which each rank of Roman society would have been seated, from the emperor and his court to the...

Idealized painting of the heritage site of the Mausoleum of Augustus (1575) by Étienne Dúperac, with a view of the gardens of Cardinal Francesco Soderini. ...