Collection: Giovanni Paolo Pannini

Giovanni Paolo Pannini (1691-1765) painted Rome for the travellers of the Grand Tour, the young European aristocrats who came to Italy to complete their education, and in his capriccios he put into a single picture monuments that in reality stand far apart. He was born in Piacenza and arrived in Rome at about twenty; in his Modern Rome he painted an imaginary gallery whose walls are covered with views of the city's churches, squares and fountains.

In this collection you will find the Capriccio of Roman Ruins with the Pantheon, Peasants among Roman Ruins, Modern Rome, the Interior of Saint Peter's, Piazza Navona and the View of the Colosseum, printed on handmade Amalfi paper.

Before him Rome had been painted by Gaspar van Wittel, the Dutchman the Italians called Vanvitelli; in the same years it was being engraved on copper by Giovanni Battista Piranesi.