Modern Rome

Modern Rome
Artist Giovanni Paolo Panini
Year 1757
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 172.1 cm × 233 cm (​67 3⁄4 in × ​91 3⁄4 in)
Location Museum of Fine Art, Boston

Picture Gallery with Views of Modern Rome[1] or simply Modern Rome is a 1757 painting by Italian artist Giovanni Paolo Panini. The original painting shows the arrangement of paintings originally commissioned by Étienne François, Count of Stainville, later the Duke de Choiseul. He was the ambassador to Rome from between 1753 and 1757. The Duke is seated on an armchair, in the painting. Panini created three different versions of this painting.[2]

The picture gallery consists of a large number of paintings of buildings, monuments, and sculptures in Rome during the time that Panini painted it.[3] On the left side of this work are, among others, paintings of St. Peter's Basilica, the Trevi Fountain, and the Spanish Steps. On the right side are, among others, paintings of the church of Santa Maria Maggiore, the Piazza Navona, and Villa Aldobrandini. In the middle are four statues, which are from front to back, the Medici lion, Michelangelo's Moses, Bernini's statue of David, and Bernini's statue of Apollo and Daphne.[2] The painting is the pendant to Panini's Ancient Rome painting.[1]

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  1. 1 2 http://www.mfa.org/collections/object/picture-gallery-with-views-of-modern-rome-34215
  2. 1 2 "Giovanni Paolo Panini | Modern Rome | The Met". The Metropolitan Museum of Art, i.e. The Met Museum. Retrieved 2017-10-20.
  3. ↑ "A discussion of Modern Rome by Panini". TripImprover - Get more out of your museum visits!. Retrieved 2017-10-20.


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