Capriccio with the Campidoglio
Capriccio with the Campidoglio (c. 1742) by Bernardo Bellotto
Capriccio with the Campidoglio is a c. 1742 oil on canvas painting by Bernardo Bellotto. It was acquired by count Stefano Sanvitale di Parma in 1835 and then exhibited in the Galleria nazionale di Parma, where it now hangs alongside another painting originally produced as its pendant.[1]
The work is an architectural capriccio, with fictive architecture in the foreground and elements of real architecture from Rome such as the 'cordonata capitolina', the colossal statue of Castor, the Basilica di Santa Maria in Aracoeli, the Palazzo Nuovo and part of the Palazzo Senatorio.
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- ^ (in Italian) Rossella Cattani, Scheda dell'opera; in Lucia Fornari Schianchi (a cura di) Galleria Nazionale di Parma. Catalogo delle opere, il Settecento, Milano, 2000 pp. 60–66
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