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Melania Trump is building a classically inspired tennis pavilion on the White House lawn
SneakyPete
It's good to see the irrational, pedantic, ridiculous, and smug has returned with yet another dumb pseudonym. Maybe we can get a new Philadelphia fantasy-architecture-encyclopedia writer too?
2020.03.07



piranesi
Stephen Lauf

Encyclopedia Ichnographica
a novel     ending


Discovery of the existence of two different versions of Piranesi's 'Pianta dell antico Foro Romano' within Le Antichità Romane Vol. 1 occurred around twenty past eight on the evening of 27 December 2019.



Circus Maximus


Circus Maximus




Pianta dell antico Foro Romano
Le Antichità Romane   Tom. I   tab. XLIII
from University of Cologne


Pianta dell antico Foro Romano
Le Antichità Romane   Tom. I   tab. XLIII
from University of Tokyo



This is the second time a heretofore unknown second state printing of a Giovanni Battista Piranesi work has been declared by Quondam. That the changes made to the Circus Maximus within the Pianta dell antico Foro Romano are virtually identical to the changes made to all the circuses within the two Ichnographia Campus Martius is obviously not mere coincidence. No doubt speculation and investigation now commences. Indeed, there is already circumstantial evidence pointing to Francesco Piranesi's possible involvement.

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