Palatino 766 pipes, pools, cliffs, streams... (by Taccola)

[Jorge_Stolfi]

Nice stuff! At the same time, go ahead and make your own drawing of a pipe with water coming out. Not a lot of artistic options.

Indeed small details like pipe openings and ripples are quite probably just coincidences.

But I was impressed by that side pool and arch of the "water bridge" drawing.  The resemblance to You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. cannot be coincidence.  It is not just the same hydraulic installation: it is the same perspective and arrangement of the parts.  Except that the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. drawing did not make sense -- until now.  

But the nymphs on the "water slide" still look like they were copied from the cave pool scene of the Balneis Puteolanis ...

All the best, --stolfi

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the VM colors the star-shaped field of the rays blue

Another hint that the colors are not originall...

All the best, --stolfi