Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART: Patriotic Altar in St. Peter's Square for the Festival of the Federation (1798)

Collection:	ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART
Preferred Title:	Patriotic Altar in St. Peter's Square for the Festival of the Federation (1798)
Alternate Title:	Altare patrio a piazza San Pietro per la Festa della Federazione
Image View:	Overall view without frame
Creator:	Felice Giani (Italian painter, 1758-1823)
Location:	repository: Museo di Roma (Rome, Lazio, Italy) MR 165
Location Note:	Palazzo Braschi; Piazza di S. Pantaleo, 10
GPS:	+41.8973+12.4729
Date:	1798 (creation)
Cultural Context:	Italian
Style Period:	Eighteenth century
Work Type 1:	painting (visual work)
Classification:	Paintings
Material:	oil paint on canvas
Technique:	oil painting (technique)
Measurements:	38 cm (height) x 53 cm (width)
Subjects:	architecture; historical; recreation and games; festivals; France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799; Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815
Description:	The painting was executed to commemorate the most important ceremony in Rome after the French occupation and the proclamation of the Jacobin Republic February 10, 1798: the Festival of the Federation, which was celebrated on 20 March. There were a series of marches; this depicts the final event, held in St. Peter's Square, the arrival of French and Roman troops to direct the Consuls towards the altar followed by ranks of deputies and representatives of the departments. The painting bears witness to the artist's participation as a fervent revolutionary, and the propaganda efforts of the French government. The work is the companion piece to another painting depicting the triumphal arch erected in Ponte Sant'Angelo on the occasion of the Feast of the Federation, also in the Museum of Rome (inv. MR 164). (Source: Museo di Roma (Palazzo Braschi) [website]; http://en.museodiroma.it/)
Collection:	Adjunct Module B: Italian Art
Identifier:	7A1-GIANI-MOR-FASP-A01
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