Ancient Rome (painting)

Ancient Rome is a name given to each of three almost identical paintings by Italian artist Giovanni Paolo Panini, produced as pendant paintings to Modern Rome for his patron, the comte de Stainville, in the 1750s.[3]

Roma Antica
ArtistGiovanni Paolo Panini
Year1754–1757[1]
Dimensions169 cm × 227 cm (67 in × 89 in)[1]
LocationStaatsgalerie, Stuttgart
Ancient Rome
ArtistGiovanni Paolo Panini
Year1757
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions172.1 cm × 229.9 cm (67.75 in × 90.5 in)
LocationMetropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Gallery of Views of Ancient Rome
ArtistGiovanni Paolo Panini
Year1759[2]
Dimensions231 cm × 303 cm (91 in × 119 in)[2]
LocationLouvre, Paris

The paintings depict many of the most significant architectural sites and sculptures from ancient Rome, such as the Colosseum, the Pantheon, Laocoön and His Sons, the Farnese Hercules, the Apollo Belvedere and the Borghese Gladiator.[4] Both Panini and Stainville are featured: Stainville stands holding a guidebook, while Panini appears behind Stainville's armchair.[3][4]

The three versions of Ancient Rome, in order of creation, are located in the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Louvre in Paris. The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Louvre each hold a version of Panini's companion piece, Modern Rome; and the third version is in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

See also

References
  1. "Giovanni Paolo Pannini (1691–1765): Roma Antica, um 1754/57". Staats Galerie.
  2. "Giovanni Paolo Panini: Gallery of Views of Modern Rome". Louvre.
  3. "Giovanni Paolo Panini: Modern Rome (52.63.2)". Archived 2009-05-19 at the Wayback Machine In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. (October 2006). Retrieved November 28, 2009.
  4. Art Resource Guide: 18th Century and Early 19th-Century French Art. United States Academic Decathlon. 2009. p. 25.
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