Italian Grand Tour Style Signed Landscape

Beautiful oil painting on canvas depicting the Roman Forum, in particular the Temple of Jupiter Stator. An important example of Grand Tour painting, this wonderful painting evocatively illustrates the unparalleled beauty of the Roman ruins, which have inspired generations of poets and artists throughout the world. Unidentified signature at lower right, but most likely attributable to the great Italian artist Pietro Sassi. This painting, never before on the market, comes from a private collection Pietro Sassi (18 July 1834 – 30 December 1905) was an Italian painter who specialized in large scale vedute of Rome and the Roman Campagna. He was born in Alessandria and resident in Rome, where he painted genre and both urban and rural vedute paintings. Le Sponde del Lago di Garda in Tirolo was exhibited at the 1880 Exhibition of Fine Arts in Turin, while two landscapes where exhibited in the next year in Milan. In 1883 he found great success in Rome where he exhibited three large scale views of ‘La Campaña Romana’, 'Il Temporale in Mare’, and ‘Il Mare del Nord’ in addition to twelve other paintings including Un Bosco di Querce negli Appennini Romani and The Arch of Septimus...

Wonderful old Italian master painting Madonna Oil on panel Alessandro Filipepi, also known as Sandro Botticelli, is the first artist that come...

Antique 19th century Pompeii landscape Grand Tour watercolour with mount Vesuvious in the background. It was customary for European noble to...

A Pair of Italian grand tour Wall Mounted Intaglios. Intaglios comes from the Italian word intagliare, meaning "to incise or carve". Intaglios, generally speaking, are designs or mo...