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72 - Architectural caprice featuring monuments of ancient Rome an…
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Estimate €4,000 - €8,000
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Architectural caprice featuring monuments of ancient Rome and figures in the Roman School style, 18th century Oil on canvas 101 x 129 cm The painting depicts a grand architectural caprice in which famous monuments of ancient Rome are freely juxtaposed within an imaginary setting. Amidst imposing colonnades and classical ruins, one can recognise the Colosseum, triumphal arches, stone fragments and an ancient statue on a high plinth, whilst in the foreground several figures enliven the scene by a body of water.The composition belongs to the successful tradition of the ‘ideated view’ and the eighteenth-century Roman ‘capriccio’, in which the archaeological repertoire is reorganised according to scenographic and decorative criteria rather than topographical ones. The perspective construction, the expanse of the sky and the alternation between monumental backdrops and landscape vistas find significant parallels in the work of Antonio Joli, a painter and set designer from Modena who worked in Rome for many years, and whose vedute are characterised by a luminous atmospheric rendering and architecture arranged in a distinctly theatrical style.The work therefore belongs to the tradition of Roman cityscape painting of the first half of the 18th century, closely aligned in concept with Joli’s models and, more generally, with the culture of the ‘archaeological capriccio’ that developed in Rome around Giovanni Paolo Panini, in which real monuments, ruins and invented architecture combine to construct an idealised and monumental Rome. In a frame.
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About the sale Paintings and Drawings from the 15th to the 19th century
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Auction time 10/29/2026 at 3:00 PM
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