Antique views & city plans
The Cartographer
Piranesi's Rome and the old world's great cities, etched at obsessive scale.
The Mausoleum of Hadrian
Piranesi's Rome — the fortress that was once an emperor's tomb.
The Colosseum
Piranesi's Rome — the amphitheater that outlasted the empire.
The Interior of St. Peter's Basilica
Piranesi's Rome — the nave built to make a visitor feel small.
The Palazzo Barberini
Piranesi's Rome — Bernini's palace for one of the city's great dynasties.
Typus Orbis Terrarum
The first modern atlas map of the whole known world.
View of Antwerp
A bird’s-eye map of the great Flemish port, ships crowding the Scheldt.
The Inn Valley
An Alpine valley view, with an emperor’s monument set into its own inset panel.
A Map of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands
A naturalist’s own map of the coastline he spent a decade surveying on foot.