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Soldiers, one shown frontally and holding a sword, at right a soldier with his back turned and holding a cup, four soldiers standing behind them with standards and spears, after the lost frescoes by Polidoro da Caravaggio on the facade of the Milesi Palace in Via della Maschera d'Oro, Rome

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Renaissance representation of classical ruins was a symbol of antiquity, enlightenment, and lost knowledge. Ruins spoke to the passage of time. The greatest subject for ruin artists was the overgrown and crumbling Classical Rome remains. Forum and the Colosseum, Pantheon, and the Appian Way. Initially, art representations of Rome were realistic, but soon the imagination of artists took flight. Roman ruins were scattered around the city, but frustrated artists began placing them in more pleasing arrangements. Capriccio was a style of imaginary scenes of buildings and ruins.

Printmaking in woodcut and engraving came to Northern Italy within a few decades of their invention north of the Alps. Engraving probably came first to Florence in the 1440s, the goldsmith Maso Finiguerra (1426–64) used the technique. Italian engraving caught the very early Renaissance, 1460–1490. Print copying was a widely accepted practice, as well as copying of paintings viewed as images in their own right.

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polidoro da caravaggio giovanni francesco venturini engraving etching prints after polidoro da caravaggio soldiers sword soldier cup four soldiers standards spears lost frescoes lost frescoes polidoro caravaggio facade milesi palace milesi palace via della maschera via della maschera d and oro rome footed cup roman history of rome italian art high resolution roman architecture architecture mannerism late renaissance baroque early baroque metropolitan museum of art medieval art italian renaissance apennine peninsula
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1000 - 1500
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Roman Wonders

Prints of Rome's views, buildings and ruins

Italian Prints

Set of random Italian prints from NYPL collection
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Metropolitan Museum of Art
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http://www.metmuseum.org/
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label_outline Explore Milesi, Four Soldiers, Giovanni Francesco Venturini

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polidoro da caravaggio giovanni francesco venturini engraving etching prints after polidoro da caravaggio soldiers sword soldier cup four soldiers standards spears lost frescoes lost frescoes polidoro caravaggio facade milesi palace milesi palace via della maschera via della maschera d and oro rome footed cup roman history of rome italian art high resolution roman architecture architecture mannerism late renaissance baroque early baroque metropolitan museum of art medieval art italian renaissance apennine peninsula