View of the Mausoleum of the Emperor Hadrian (now called Castel S. Angelo) from the rear, from Vedute di Roma (Roman Views

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View of the Mausoleum of the Emperor Hadrian (now called Castel S. Angelo) from the rear, from Vedute di Roma (Roman Views), ca. 1756, Etching, undescribed first state with address of Bouchard, Sheet: 20 x 25 9/16 in. ( x 65 cm), Prints, Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, Mogliano Veneto 1720–1778 Rome), Piranesi's earliest views of Rome, such as the Piazza del Popolo, had placed the principal buildings at the back of a vast, tilted space, filled with a diversity of human activity. By the mid-1750s, the monuments fill the space more commandingly, and are seen as if from below and close at hand, as in this view of the Castel Sant'Angelo

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