Rome Was! Ruins Eternal

2015 • 43 minutes

About this movie

Rome Was! Ruins Eternal, has been created entirely from still images, many of which have been merged together with the eighteenth century engravings by Giambattista Piranesi. Piranesi has been widely recognized as Italy's most celebrated artist of engravings of views of Rome. This film is an exploration of the changes to the monumental landscape of Rome over a quarter of a millennium.