Plate 2 [counterproof]; stage set with allegorical figures seated among the clouds, with a large colonnade in the background; from Aurelio Aureli's "Il Favore De Gli Dei"

Stage design with allegorical figures on a staircase; from 'L'Eta Dell'Oro'

Carlo Antonio Forti

Staircase at the Palace of Voorst in Holland

Daniel Marot

Design for a Trompe L'Oeil Ceiling

Attributed to Flaminio Innocenzo Minozzi

Design for a Ceiling: Jason and the Golden Fleece

Fedele Fischetti

Design for a Quarter of a Trompe L'Oeil Ceiling with Architecture in the Ionic Order and a Statue of Victory

Vittorio Maria Bigari

Design for a "Quarantore" Decoration

Federico Zuccaro (Zuccari)

Plate from "La Voye de Laict ou le Chemin des Heros à l'entrée de Louis XIV en la Cité d'Avignon le 16 Novembre 1622"

Thomas de Berton, Luigi Palma

Stage design with allegorical figures; from 'L'Idea di tutti le perfezioni ... Piacenza'

Carlo Antonio Forti

Catafalque

Jeremias Gottlob Rugendas

Sacrificial Offering in a Temple

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Design for Stage Scenery (Hampton Court) with Mythological Figures

James Thornhill

Ceiling Design with the Presentation in the Temple

Gregorio de' Ferrari