Collection: Jan Frans van Bloemen

Jan Frans van Bloemen (1662-1749) was a painter from Antwerp who lived in Rome for about sixty years, and the northern painters living in the city nicknamed him Orizzonte, "Horizon", for the distances in his landscapes. He painted the countryside around Rome and the waterfalls of Tivoli, with ruins, shepherds and travellers small beneath enormous skies.

In this collection you will find the Landscape with a Bridge, the Landscape with Figures at a Well, the View of Tivoli, the Storm in the Roman Countryside, the Arcadian Landscape with Shepherds and the Capriccio with a Belvedere, printed on handmade Amalfi paper.

In the same years another painter from the North was working in Rome, Gaspar van Wittel; a few decades later the Roman countryside was painted by the German Jakob Philipp Hackert.