Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART
Preferred Title:
Colosseum
Alternate Title:
Colosseo
Image View:
Detail, tourists, soliders and beggars at the foot of the Colosseum
Creator:
Ippolito Caffi (Italian painter, 1809-1866)
Location:
repository: Museo di Roma (Rome, Lazio, Italy) MR 217
Location Note:
Palazzo Braschi; Piazza di S. Pantaleo, 10
GPS:
41.8973 12.4729
Date:
ca. 1845 (creation)
Cultural Context:
Italian
Style Period:
Nineteenth century
Work Type 1:
painting (visual work)
Classification:
Paintings
Material:
oil paint on canvas
Technique:
oil painting (technique)
Relation Work:
depicts Colosseum
Subjects:
cityscape; landscape; archaeology; Architecture, Roman; Roman Empire; Titus, Emperor of Rome, 40-81
Description:
Caffi made a series of paintings of the Flavian Amphitheatre (Colosseum) and the Roman Forum. The figures usually absent, or of little importance, in his works, in this case take an important role of animating the scene. The striking resemblance to some contemporary photographs means it can be assumed Caffi frequented the environment of artists-photographer s who gave birth to the "Roman School of Photography". [source; museum label]
Collection:
Adjunct Module B: Italian Art
Identifier:
7A1-CAFFI-MOR-C-A02
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Colosseum