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Disegno della seconda Machina rappresentante una magnifica Galleria illuminata in tempo di notte: Incendiata per comando di Sua Eccellenza il Sign[or] Don Lorenzo Colonna, ... la sera delli 29. Giugno 1764 ...

Posi, Paolo, Palazzi, Giuseppe, Vasi, Giuseppe, Palazzi, Giuseppe [Ill.], Vasi, Giuseppe [Bearb.] · 1764 · 2 pictures

An 1764 Italian print album plate by Paolo Posi and Giuseppe Palazzi, with Giuseppe Vasi, held by Heidelberg University Library, showing a temporary festival machine for a Rome fireworks display commissioned by Prince Lorenzo Colonna. The two plates show the same engraved elevation of a grand illuminated gallery with ornate baroque facade, tiered balustrades, and crowds on terraces, with a colour calibration bar in the second. A designer could draw on its layered architectural tiers, dense crowd staging, and fine etched line work for baroque festival scenography.

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