Nuova pianta di Roma data in luce da Giambattista Nolli l’anno MDCCXLVII, known as La Pianta Grande di Roma
Cleveland Museum of Art

Nuova pianta di Roma data in luce da Giambattista Nolli l’anno MDCCXLVII, known as La Pianta Grande di Roma

Giovanni Battista Nolli (Italian, 1701–1756) · 1748

etching and engraving
CC0 — Public Domain
Cleveland Museum of Art

To make this map, Pope Clement XII granted the mapmaker permission to measure courtyards and other interior, inaccessible spaces in monastic communities, even those in nuns’ convents, which was controversial at the time.

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