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Prospetto della Prima Machina rappresentante Magnifico, e delizioso Edificio destinato a salubri Bagni: Eretta per comando di Sua Eccellenza il Sign[or] D. Lorenzo Colonna, ... nella vigilia delli Gloriosi SS. Apostoli Pietro, e Paolo l'anno MDCCLXI

Posi, Paolo, Palazzi, Giuseppe, Vasi, Giuseppe, Palazzi, Giuseppe [Ill.], Vasi, Giuseppe [Bearb.] · 1761 · 2 pictures

This is a 1761 Italian festival-machine engraving published in Rome, recording a temporary baroque bath-house stage erected by Lorenzo Colonna for the eve of the feast of Saints Peter and Paul. Its two plates, drawn by Paolo Posi with Giuseppe Palazzi and Giuseppe Vasi, show a monumental arched facade with ranked sculpted niches, columns, fountains and a crowd of carriages and figures on a broad terrace, giving a designer strong examples of ceremonial architectural staging and dense eighteenth-century street-scene detail.

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