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To the Italian visitors of my web site

MANNERIST ROME
in the footsteps of an XVIIIth century traveller
 

Villa di papa Pio IV

(Casino di Pio IV
background of this page: detail of Porta del Popolo)
A selection of plates by Giuseppe Vasi showing Mannerist Rome (1555-1592).

Porta del Popolo (Plate 1)
Porta Pia (Plate 4)
Porta S. Giovanni (Plate 8)
Palazzo del Sant'Offizio (Plate 16)
Porta Pertusa (Plate 18)
Piazza Colonna (Plate 22)
Obelisco di Piazza S. Pietro (Plate 27)
Piazza laterale di S. Giovanni in Laterano (Plate 34)
Piazza alli Monti (Plate 37)
S. Atanasio dei Greci e Trinità dei Monti (Plate 40)
S. Giovanni Decollato (Plate 55)
Palazzo Spinelli (Plate 64)
Palazzo di Colonna di Sciarra (Plate 67)
Palazzo Ruspoli (Plate 68)
Palazzo Marescotti (Plate 77)
Fontana delle Tartarughe (Plate 78)
S. Maria della Scala (Plate 90bis)
Ponte Rotto (Plate 94bis)
S. Maria in Trivio (Plate 104)
S. Tomaso in Parione (Plate 110)
Palazzo Tizio da Spoleto (Plate 113)
Fontana in Piazza dell'Aracoeli (Plate 116)
S. Maria in Traspontina (Plate 124)
Chiesa del Gesù (Plate 135)
Archiginnasio della Sapienza (Plate 161)
Collegio Romano (Plate 162)
Collegio Germanico e Palazzo Altemps (Plate 164)
Madonna dei Monti (Plate 169)
S. Spirito in Sassia (Plate 171)
S. Luigi dei Francesi (Plate 175)
Casino di Pio IV nel Vaticano (Plate 182)
Casino di Villa Medici (Plate 188)
Casino di Villa Mattei sul Monte Celio (Plate 196)

You may wish to see the following pages:
A 1588 Guide to Rome - The Seven Churches
A 1588 Guide to Rome - The Churches of Trastevere and Borgo
A 1588 Guide to Rome - The Churches near Via del Corso
A 1588 Guide to Rome - The Churches in the Bend of the Tiber.
A 1588 Guide to Rome - The Churches of Ripa and Campitelli.
A 1588 Guide to Rome - The Churches of Monti.