Disegno della seconda Machina incendiata per comando di Sua Eccellenza il Signor Don Lorenzo Colonna Gran Contestabile del Regno di Napoli ... la Sera de i 29. Giugno 1765 ...
An 1765 Italian engraved plate from a Heidelberg University Library digitisation, recording a fireworks machine built for the Neapolitan Colonna family's feast of 29 June 1765, drawn by Paolo Posi and Giuseppe Palazzi with Giuseppe Vasi. The plate shows a symmetrical baroque temporary structure with towers, obelisks and a central arched gateway, set in a grey tonal print. A designer might take its strict frontal symmetry, ornamental scrollwork and architectural stagecraft as reference for festival or theatre facades.
