Arpilleras II – Documental en proceso

Plate 19: view of the Baths of Caracalla, indicating with inscribed letter ‘A’ the places from which columns were reportedly taken by Pope Pius IV to be sent to the Grand Duke of Florence, from the series ‘Ruins of the antiquity of Rome, Tivoli, Pozzuoli, and other places’ (Vestigi della antichità di Roma, Tivoli, Pozzvolo et altri luochi)

Baths of Trajan (Sette Sale, Villa Brancaccio, Rome)

Plan of a spacious and magnificent College designed after the ancient gymnasia of the Greeks and the baths of the Romans…, from Opere Varie di Architettura, prospettive, grotteschi, antichità; inventate, ed incise da Giambattista Piranesi Architetto Veneziano (Various Works of Architecture, perspectives, grotesques and antiquities; designed and etched by Giambattista Piranesi, Venetian Architect)

Bathing suit

King Siddharta Bathing: Folio from a Kalpasutra Manuscript

A Turkish Bath (Aubry de La Mottraye’s ‘Travels throughout Europe, Asia and into Part of Africa…,’ London, 1724, vol. I, pl. 10)