Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Allegorical Frontispiece of Rome and its history

One of those strange, imaginary cities that grew out of Piranesi's obsession with Rome. An allegory with two vanishing points, stones stacked on top of each other like some crazy Lego-project.

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