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17th-18th Century View of the Temple of Minerva Painting Oil on Canvas

About the Item

Painter active in Rome in the 18th-19th century. View of the temple of Minerva Medica Oil on canvas, 65 x 78 cm - with frame 71.5 x 85 cm The painting bears a traditional attribution to François Marius Granet (Aix-en-Provence, 1775 - 1849). The painter was a pupil of David but from 1802 to 1819 he lived in Rome, as evidenced by a series of paintings depicting views of the city and especially of the Roman countryside (Ponte San Rocco in Tivoli, 1810-20, MoMA, New York), and then return there between 1825 and 1830. In the Eternal City Granet devoted himself to landscape painting, inspired by the landscape painting of Gaspard Dughet and Van Lint, expressing a neoclassical sensibility but nevertheless imbued with a romantic vein, capable of evoking 'the spirit of the places' (see L. Salerno, 'Painters of views in Italy (1580 - 1830)', Rome 1991, p. 425, S.85). The canvas depicts a view of the temple of Minerva Medica located on the Esquiline, a decagonal construction covered by a dome of 25 meters, but in reality it is the nymphaeum of the 'Horti Liciniani', the large residence with gardens that belonged to the emperor Gallienus in the third century AD. The temple was the subject of numerous representations in painting, which recall the vestiges of antiquity, such as the engraving by Giovan Battista Piranesi (1756), the painting by Paolo Anesi with the View of the Temple of Minerva Medica (Private Collection, Rome) and finally that of Jean Baptiste Pillement, preserved in the Warsaw Museum.

Dimensions:

Height: 28.35 in (72 cm)Width: 33.47 in (85 cm)Depth: 1.58 in (4 cm)

Materials and Techniques:

Canvas,Hand-Painted,Oiled,Painted

Place of Origin:

Italy

Period:

Late 17th Century

Date of Manufacture:

17th-18th Century

Condition:

Refinished. Wear consistent with age and use. The painting has been cleaned.