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Piranesi at the Nymphaeum of Egeria: perspective expedients

In the year of the birth anniversary of the important Venetian artist, the paper aims to contribute to the great amount of studies conducted on the figure and work of Giovanni Battista Piranesi. After a brief presentation of the previous researches concerning aspects of the interpretation of Piranesian spaces, the contribution proposes a geometrical analysis of the "Veduta della fonte e delle spelonche d’Egeria fuor della Porta Capena or di S.Seb.no", collected in the "Vedute di Roma" (1748–1778).

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