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Description: | Although this view of ruins, one of a pair with MNEMG 00.1873.10, includes the famous pyramidal Roman tomb of Cestius, it is almost certainly imaginary, rather than a record of an actual place, and is an example of the genre of capriccio (an imaginary architectural view) which gained popularity during the age of the Grand Tour. Giovanni Paolo Panini was the leading architectural painter in Rome in the eighteenth century, and inspired many imitators; this example is a copy, with some alterations, of a work now in the Prado and may be the work of a northern European painter. | Subjects: | landscape; buildings and gardens; place (Rome) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Panini, Giovanni Paolo (Italian painter, ca. 1692-1765) Æ Attributed to after | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8627... | Go to resource |
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