"Antichità, Teatro, Magnificenza: Renaissance and Baroque Images of Rome" will be on view at the Michael C. Carlos Museum of Emory University from August 24 through November 17, 2013. This spectacular temporary exhibition includes maps, views, and books on Rome from the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries.

Over 130 works of art, many from the Carlos Museum's permanent collection, representing ancient Rome will be showcased in three major sections—Antichita, Teatro, and Magnificenza. "Antichita" includes the Antiquae urbis imago, Pirro Ligorio's 1561 reconstruction of the ancient city as the focal point of the antiquarian interests during the Italian Renaissance of the sixteenth-century.

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