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Thoughts, observations, and maybe some insights on Rome during my spring as a Rome Prize fellow at the American Academy in Rome -- Max Page

Sunday, June 1, 2014

Piranesi, then and now


I was walking in the glorious Doria Pamphilj Park and was, again, pleased at the thought, as I began my descent on the stairs by the Villa Doria Pamphilj that Giovanni Battista Piranesi was here just a few hundred years ago preparing one of his famous etchings of Rome.





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