Giovanni Battista Falda was both an architect and engraver who was particularly skilled in depictions of perspective and scale. His seventeenth century engravings depicted the restoration and preservation of Rome's medieval and renaissance architecture and documented the remarkable architectural changes occuring in the seventeen century as Rome undertook extensive urban remodeling . Falda faithfully depicted the works of Italy’s finest Renaissance & baroque architects in a volumionous study: Il Nuovo Teatro della Fabriche, et Edifichii, in Prospettiva de Roma Moderna, published by Giovanni Jacamo de Rossi from Venice in 1665. The architectural engravings fill the page with strong linear structure, showing every detail in these Renaissance facades.
