Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART
Preferred Title:
Interior of the Colosseum
Alternate Title:
Interno del Colosseo
Image View:
Overall view without frame
Creator:
Ippolito Caffi (Italian painter, 1809-1866)
Location:
repository: Museo di Roma (Rome, Lazio, Italy) MR 5694
Location Note:
Palazzo Braschi; Piazza di S. Pantaleo, 10
GPS:
41.8973 12.4729
Date:
1857 (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:
architecture; 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. This is typical of many of his works in that there are no people present.
Collection:
Adjunct Module B: Italian Art
Identifier:
7A1-CAFFI-MOR-IC-A01
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Interior of the Colosseum