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Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae: Aerial View of the Belvedere and its Gardens

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The Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae is a collection of engravings of Rome and Roman antiquities, the core of which consists of prints published by Antonio Lafreri and gathered under a title page he printed in the mid-1570's. Copies of the Speculum vary greatly in the number of prints, and individual prints were reissued and changed over time.

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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giovanni ambrogio brambilla claudio duchetti engraving etching prints speculum romanae magnificentiae speculum romanae magnificentiae aerial view aerial view belvedere gardens 16th century italian art high resolution ultra high resolution ambrogio brambilla architecture architectural drawings metropolitan museum of art apennine peninsula architectural plan ancient rome
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1500 - 1600
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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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giovanni ambrogio brambilla claudio duchetti engraving etching prints speculum romanae magnificentiae speculum romanae magnificentiae aerial view aerial view belvedere gardens 16th century italian art high resolution ultra high resolution ambrogio brambilla architecture architectural drawings metropolitan museum of art apennine peninsula architectural plan ancient rome