Painter active in Rome (18th-19th century), View of the Temple of Minerva Medica

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 glimpses of the city and above all 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 dedicated himself to view painting, inspired by the landscape painting of Gaspard Dughet and Van Lint, expressing a neoclassical sensitivity but nevertheless imbued with a romantic vein, capable of evoking 'the spirit of the places' (see L. Salerno, 'Pittori di vedute in Italia (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 building covered by a 25 meter dome, but in reality it is the nymphaeum of the 'Horti Liciniani', the large residence with gardens that belonged to Emperor Gallienus in the XNUMXrd century AD
The temple was the subject of numerous representations in paintings, which recall its vestiges of antiquity, such as the engraving by Giovan Battista Piranesi (1756), the painting by Paolo Anesi with the View on the Temple of Minerva Medica (Private Collection, Rome) , finally that of Jean Baptiste Pillement, preserved in the Warsaw Museum.

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