Temple of Vesta, Tivoli

Its ruins are dramatically sited on the acropolis of the Etruscan and Roman city,[1] overlooking the falls of the Aniene and a picturesque narrow gully.

The comparatively good condition of the temple is owing to its Christianization as a church, "Santa Maria della Rotonda".

in the following century both Giuseppe Vasi and Giovanni Battista Piranesi made etchings and engravings of the "Temple of Vesta".

[6] The English architect Sir John Soane visited the temple and made drawings which he used as comparative examples in his lectures.

In 1777, he attempted to buy the Temple of Vesta and bring it back to Downhill, but Pope Pius VI would not accede to the proposal.

In Poland, the Temple of the Sibyl in Puławy was erected by Izabela Czartoryska to designs by the Polish architect Chrystian Piotr Aigner and served as a museum.

Falls of the Aniene by Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich , c. 1745-50: a romanticized view
A modern photograph
Drawing of a 19th-century "Tivoli order" capital, reconstructing those of the temple
The rich order was admired and often copied
One of the capitals
Soane's 1805 design for the Bank of England, painted by Joseph Gandy