Roma vetus ac recens, vtriusque aedificiis ad eruditam cognitionem expositis
Roma vetus ac recens is a 1665 Roman antiquarian guidebook printed in Rome at the press of Philippi Rubei, compiled from earlier scholarship by Alessandro Donati and others for readers of ancient and modern Rome. The pictures are crisp black-and-white engravings of temples, a gateway and coin-like roundels set in ruled borders, showing architecture in flat elevation with figures standing in the foreground. A designer could draw on their classical orders, pediments, stepped plinths and medallion frames for period-style layouts.
