#10: How did the Palatine come to Naples? The so-called Bagni di Livia as an example of the visualization of the Palatine on behalf of the King of the Two Sicilies - [Reception stories. The Antiquitatum Thesaurus blog]

The article focuses on three plans of the Palatine Hill from the first half of the 19th century, which are now in the State Archives of Naples. Two of them show the Horti Farnesiani and one various drawings of the so-called Bagni di Livia, which are located in the Horti. The latter were made in 1845 by the architect Alessandro Mampieri, who was commissioned by the King of the Two Sicilies to design a new staircase for descending into the so-called baths. The drawings are an example of how something whole can be (re)constructed from an archaeological find that has only been preserved in fragments. Mampieri skillfully combines different modes of representation with colours and inscriptions, resulting in a plausible visualization of the building task, findings and reconstruction.