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Engravings

The eight engravings are as follows:

Heemskerck's inclusion of the Colosseum deviates from the traditional "seven" and reflects a personal reverence, having studied the Colosseum firsthand in Rome and included it in his 1553 Self-Portrait with the Colosseum. It was the only one of the eight engravings pictured as an actual ruin, rather than in idealized form, and was the only one that could be easily visited by van Heemskerck's audience at the

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