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| Keywords: Giovanni Paolo Panini - View of the Colosseum - Walters 372367.jpg Walters Art Museum artwork Q18748561 Creator Giovanni Paolo Panini This view of the Colosseum and the Arch of Constantine is a somewhat fanciful reconstruction showing each monument from its best side Fallen walls of the Colosseum have been tidied up and several other works of antiquity have been introduced into the landscapes such as the famous Borghese vase now in the Louvre Museum Paris at the left Roman ruins had become popular subjects by the 1700s in part due to the new interest in archaeology Panini was a master of these souvenir paintings so favored by wealthy English visitors on their Grand Tour of Europe; this painting and its companion View of the Roman Forum were originally in a private British collection Zeri Italian paintings in the Walters Art Gallery 411 522-523 1747 Baroque Oil on canvas Painted surface cm 82 133 2 ; Stretcher cm 82 134 8 accession number 37 2367 24100 Tyrwhitt-Drake Shardeloes Amersham Buckinghamshire date and mode of acquisition unknown Agnew London date and mode of acquistion unknown David Koetser London and New York date and mode of acquistion unknown Walters Art Museum 1954 by purchase Museum purchase 1954 Transcription Inscribed on the block of marble at the lower left corner I P PANINI ROMAE/1747 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 A Renaissance Puzzle Heemskerck's Abduction of Helen The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1993 place of origin Rome Italy Walters Art Museum license 2D Baroque paintings in the Walters Art Museum Giovanni Paolo Pannini Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review | ||||
