Ancient Rome (painting)
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| - | '''''Ancient Rome''''' is an [[Oil painting|oil on canvas]] painting by [[Giovanni Paolo Panini]]. Panini painted the piece as a [[pendant painting]] to ''[[Modern Rome (painting)|Modern Rome]]'' for the [[Count de Stainville]] in 1757. The painting depicts many of the most significant architectural sites and sculptures from [[Ancient Rome]], such as the [[Colosseum]], the [[Pantheon, Rome|Pantheon]], ''[[Laocoön and His Sons]]'', and ''[[Farnese Hercules]]''. Both Panini and Panini's patron the Count de Stainville make an appearance in the work. Panini sits in the armchair and the Count de Stainville stands holding a guidebook. | + | '''''Ancient Rome'''''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:PanniniMusImagin.jpg] (1757) is an [[Oil painting|oil on canvas]] painting by [[Giovanni Paolo Panini]]. It is one of his [[imaginary galleries]]. |
| + | Panini painted the piece as a [[pendant painting]] to ''[[Modern Rome (painting)|Modern Rome]]'' for the [[Count de Stainville]] in 1757. The painting depicts many of the most significant architectural sites and sculptures from [[Ancient Rome]]. | ||
| - | ''[[Roman Ruins and Sculpture]]''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:PanniniMusImagin.jpg] ('' Galerie de vues de la Rome antique'') is a painting by [[Giovanni Paolo Pannini]], one of his [[imaginary galleries]]. | + | Both Panini and Panini's patron the Count de Stainville, later duke de Choiseul, make an appearance in the work. Panini sits in the armchair and the Count de Stainville stands holding a guidebook. |
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| + | Count de Stainville is shown in the center with a guidebook in hand. Panini paints himself behind the chair. The figures are admiring a copy of the ''[[Aldobrandini Wedding]]''. | ||
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| + | The [[Pantheon, Rome|Pantheon]], the [[Colosseum]], [[Trajan's Column]], the ''[[Farnese Hercules]]'', and the ''[[Laocoön and His Sons]]'' are easily discernible. | ||
| - | The painting is a pendant to Panini's Modern Rome and shows the most famous [[ancient monument]]s in Rome. It was painted for the count de Stainville, later duke de Choiseul, who is shown in the center with a guidebook in hand. Panini paints himself behind the chair. The figures are admiring a copy of the ''[[Aldobrandini Wedding]]''. The [[Pantheon]], the [[Colosseum]], [[Trajan's Column]], the [[Farnese Hercules]], and the [[Laocoön]] are easily discernible. | ||
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| *[[Classical archaeology]] | *[[Classical archaeology]] | ||
| *[[Ruin painting]] | *[[Ruin painting]] | ||
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Ancient Rome[1] (1757) is an oil on canvas painting by Giovanni Paolo Panini. It is one of his imaginary galleries. Panini painted the piece as a pendant painting to Modern Rome for the Count de Stainville in 1757. The painting depicts many of the most significant architectural sites and sculptures from Ancient Rome.
Both Panini and Panini's patron the Count de Stainville, later duke de Choiseul, make an appearance in the work. Panini sits in the armchair and the Count de Stainville stands holding a guidebook.
Count de Stainville is shown in the center with a guidebook in hand. Panini paints himself behind the chair. The figures are admiring a copy of the Aldobrandini Wedding.
The Pantheon, the Colosseum, Trajan's Column, the Farnese Hercules, and the Laocoön and His Sons are easily discernible.
See also
![[1]](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:PanniniMusImagin.jpg){kind=link}