Frontispiece to Vicenzo Scammozzi's 'Discorsi sopra l'antichita di Roma', depicting a perspective view of Roman ruins seen through an archway

SOURCE: Vicenzo Scamozzi. Discorsi sopra l'antichita di Roma, di Vicenzo Scamozzi (Venice, 1583), frontispiece NOTES: First published in 1581, this edition of the work is a later issue of the first edition sheets. The etchings are reprinted from an earlier suite of Roman views.