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Panini was a famed painter of capriccios, architectural fantasies.In this case, he combined a staggering array of monuments by Romans without regard to topography. From left to right, he included the Temple of Hadrian, the Pantheon, the Temple of Vesta, the Maison Carrée, and the Theater of Marcellus, all of them surrounding the Obelisk of Thutmose III.
Fantasy view with the Pantheon and other monuments of Ancient Rome, 1737, by Giovanni Paolo Panini. In painting, a capriccio (Italian pronunciation: [kaˈprittʃo], plural: capricci [kaˈprittʃi]; in older English works often anglicized as "caprice") is an architectural fantasy, placing together buildings, archaeological ruins and other architectural elements in fictional and often ...
Roman fresco from the Tomb of Esquilino, c. 300-280 B.C. As with the other arts, the art of painting in Ancient Rome was indebted to its Greek antecedents. In archaic times, when Rome was still under Etruscan influence, they shared a linear style learned from the Ionian Greeks of the Archaic period, showing scenes from Greek mythology, daily life, funeral games, banquet scenes with musicians ...
Between 1753 and 1757, Count Étienne François de Choiseul, Louis XV's ambassador to Rome in the 1740s, commissioned four paintings from Pannini: the Galleries of Views of Ancient Rome [7] and Modern Rome, [8] a view of the Place Saint-Peter and an Interior of St. Peter's Basilica. [9] These paintings were made between 1754 and 1757.
Roman Campagna, also called Ruins of Aqueducts in the Campagna Di Roma, is an 1843 oil on canvas painting by Thomas Cole. It is currently displayed at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Connecticut. [ 1 ]
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Buried and unseen for nearly 2,000 years, a series of striking paintings showing Helen of Troy and other Greek heroes has been uncovered in the ruined Roman town of Pompeii.
Pages in category "Paintings of Roman myths" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total. ... This page was last edited on 2 May 2024, ...