The destruction of ancient Rome : a sketch of the history of the monuments
Rodolfo Amedeo Lanciani's 1899 Macmillan survey of Rome's ancient monuments, aimed at general readers and scholars, traces how the city's antiquities were lost to time, building reuse, and excavation. The pictures are sepia halftone photographs and an engraved view of ruined Roman vaults and broken masonry, offering a designer useful texture of weathered stone, arched shadows, and fragmented architecture.
