Nearly forgotten but glorious art, envisionings and historical oddments from the back corners of the internet
Pretty places that never were with imaginings up by Italian artist Gaetano Landi. Born in Italy he published “Architectural Decorations: A Periodical Work of Original Designs Invented from the Egyptian, the Greek, the Roman, the Etruscan, the Attic, the Gothic &c for Exterior and Interior Decoration” in 1810 from which these plates are taken.
On a voyage to see how much mileage I can get from the creative ability and eye for images that my family thought was useless. On line art curator, fiction writer and now blogger. Historian's daughter. Follow me . . .even I have no idea where I'm going next.
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