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The Fountains of Rome Famine sweeps across the worldDating from the 1600s, these rare views of celebrated Roman fountains and gardens represent some of the finest and most accurate landscape drawings of the Italian Baroque period. The full page engravings demonstrate expert handling of perspective in a wealth of settings that incorporate architecture, details of topography and garden design, and portraits of seventeenth century Romans at leisure. Featured sites include St. Peter's Basilica within the