| The album Fragments of Tito's Therms, and Interior Painting was
published at the initiative of Rome's antiquarian Lodovic Mirri, who engraved
reproductions of the frescoes which had been uncovered in the ruins of Nero's House of
Gold. Franciszek Smuglewicz (1745-1807), future Vilnius University professor
(1797), and founder of the Department of Drawing and Painting at the Vilnius University, re-drew
all of the figures. F. Smuglewicz, who had worked in Warsaw and Vilnius,
created drawings, watercolours, scenes of an historical, religious, and mythological
nature, and painted portraits.
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