The façade of the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore at the beginning of XVII century
In this Giacomo Lauro veduta dated 1618, the mosaics by Filippo Rusuti (1290) from the old façade live on alongside work undertaken during the papacy of Paul V: the lateral right-hand palazzo by Flaminio Ponzio, and the Corinthian column from the Basilica di Maxentius, erected in the piazza outside the Basilica in 1614.
Giacomo Lauro, Ecclesia S. Mariae Maioris, in: Id., Antiquae Urbis splendor,Roma 1641