Roman Capriccio Showing the Colosseum, the Borghese Gladiator, Trajan's Column, the Dying Gaul, the Tomb of Cestius, the Arch of Constantine and the Temple of Castor and Pollux by Giovanni Paolo Pannini

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The artwork

In this extraordinary architectural capriccio, Giovanni Paolo Pannini brings together some of the most famous monuments and sculptures of ancient Rome in a single, grand ideal view. The Colosseum dominates the composition as a symbol of imperial greatness, while alongside it stand Trajan's Column, the Tomb of Cestius and the Arch of Constantine, in an imaginary dialogue spanning centuries of Roman history. Among the ruins are famous statues such as the Borghese Gladiator and the Dying Gaul, portrayed as icons of heroic virtue and classical pathos.

The work is a poetic evocation of eternal Rome: with a masterly sense of staging and perspective, Pannini builds a theatre of antiquity that reflects the 18th-century taste for archaeology, offering the viewer, and in particular travellers on the Grand Tour, an ideal compendium of the city's wonders. The painting thus becomes a manifesto of the universal allure of antiquity, exalting Rome as a place where memory, art and history intertwine in a single celebratory vision.

Unique quality material

Print on handmade Amalfi paper
Sheet size: 29 x 42 cm (11.4 x 16.5 in)
With frame: 31 x 44 cm (12.2 x 17.3 in)
Material: artwork printed on very fine handmade Amalfi paper with deckled edges
Frame: light brown beech wood and wood pulp, handmade