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Description: | Signed: yes Description: The capriccio, or architectural fantasy, was favoured as a sophisticated souvenir for travellers on the Grand Tour; real buildings and monuments, arranged in fanciful groupings, reminded them of their travels after their return home. Giovanni Paolo Panini was one of the most illustrious practitioners of the capriccio, and here he juxtaposes the Colosseum with Trajan's Column, the columns of the Temple of Castor and Pollux, the Arch of Constantine, the tomb of Cestius and the celebrated sculptures of the Dying Gaul and the Borghese Warrior - none of which, in reality, were near each other. | Subjects: | landscape; townscape; buildings and gardens; place (Rome); figure | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Panini, Giovanni Paolo (Italian painter, ca. 1692-1765) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8626... | Go to resource |
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