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| Keywords: Giovanni Paolo Panini - View of the Roman Forum - Walters 372366.jpg Walters Art Museum artwork Q18748563 Creator Giovanni Paolo Panini In creating this historical portrayal of the Roman Forum Panini the most celebrated Roman landscape painter of his time eliminated some modern buildings in order not to obstruct his vista which stretches from the Arch of Septimius Severus to the Column of the Temple of Saturn Apparently in order to maximize interest he also added monuments from miles away The companion View of the Colosseum is handled in much the same way The ancient structures are given new life by Rome's inhabitants--strolling gentlemen contemplating the antiquities perhaps the tourists who will purchase such paintings as this and gypsies and peasants who simply make the ruins their home Zeri Italian paintings in the Walters Art Gallery 410 520-521 1747 Baroque Oil on canvas Painted surface cm 81 9 133 5 ; Stretcher cm 82 134 5 accession number 37 2366 24230 Tyrwhitt-Drake Shardeloes Amersham Buckinghamshire date and mode of acquisition unknown Agnew London date and mode of acquisition unknown David Koetser London and New York date and mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum 1954 by purchase Museum purchase 1954 Transcription Inscribed on the block of stone at the lower left corner I P PANINI ROMAE 1747; Transcription On the architrave of the Temple of Saturn near the right edge SENATVS INCENDIO CONSVMPTVM; Translation The Senate destroyed by fire The Ruins of Rome University of Pennsylvania Museum Philadelphia; The Detroit Institute of Arts Detroit 1960-1961 The City Images of Rome Smith College Museum of Art Northampton 1963 The Origins of the Italian Veduta Brown University Bell Gallery List Art Center Providence 1978 A Renaissance Puzzle Heemskerck's Abduction of Helen The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1993 A Magnificent Age Masterpieces from the Walters Art Museum Baltimore The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art Kansas City; Mint Museum of Art Charlotte; The Walters Art Museum Baltimore 2002-2004 place of origin Rome Italy Walters Art Museum license 2D Baroque paintings in the Walters Art Museum Giovanni Paolo Pannini Forum Romanum in art 1747 Rome in the 1740s Paintings of Rome Forum Veduta People and ruins in paintings 1740s paintings from Italy 1747 oil on canvas paintings in the United States | ||||
