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The bronze statue ofArchangel Michael, standing on top of thecastel Sant'Angelo, Rome, modelled in 1753 byPeter Anton von Verschaffelt(1710–1793).

Piranesi's earliest views of Rome, such as the Piazza del Popolo (37.45.3.49), had placed the principal buildings at the back of a vast, tilted space, filled with a diversity of human activity. By the mid-1750s, the monuments fill the space more…