18th century
Views of Rome
(9) Tempera on paper, 9 x 14 cm; with frame 34 x 40 cm
During the 17th century, the Grand Tour became fashionable among the aristocracy, a trend that continued into the 18th and 19th centuries. This traditional journey, undertaken to improve knowledge and learning, could last from a few months to three or four years and touched the major European cultural centers, usually ending in Italy.
Engravings of cities or small-format paintings began to spread, created to preserve memory and remembrance of this journey. These nine tempera paintings can be associated with this use, although characterized by a quality and attention decidedly above average.
A typical example for Rome of this phenomenon are Piranesi's engravings, marked by a dramatic tone, based on an idea of Roman dignity and magnificence, expressed, as in the nine watercolors, through the grandeur and isolation of the architectural elements and the reduced size of the figures, in order to achieve a sublime feeling of the greatness of the ancient past.
In these nine cards we find represented, the Campo Vaccino, the current area of the Fori, the Piazza del Campidoglio, created by the marvelous architectural direction of Michelangelo, the Colosseum from the outside and from the inside, Piazza San Pietro, the ruins of the Castello dell'Acqua Giulia, a now-disappeared fountain also known as "Trophies of Mario", for the discovery of some sculptures in the Middle Ages, probably built in the Domitian era (81-96 AD), the Trajan's column, built by the emperor Trajan to celebrate the victory over the Dacians in 113 AD, the remains of the tablinum (the living room) and the apse of the Domus Aurea, the large urban villa built by Nero between 64 - 68 AD.
They are characterized by excellent pictorial quality, evident in the definition of spaces and architectures, represented from life with great attention to detail and a strong monumental sense to transmit the grandeur of the city. The recurring presence in some cards of two young men, one dressed in red, the other in blue, can perhaps be associated with the two young men who were making the grand tour.
The object is in good condition
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