View of Rome with the Campidoglio Square, Gaetano Vetturali (Lucca, 1701-1783) workshop

Gaetano Vetturali (Lucca, 1701-1783) workshop

View of Rome with the Piazza del Campidoglio and the Cordonata

Oil on canvas (44 x 75 – Framed 61 x 90)

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The Roman view examined here illustrates one of the most famous places in the Eternal City, where the painter, as in a snapshot, immortalises a precise moment of the urban life of the time, animated by numerous elegantly dressed men and women.

Specifically, we see the majestic Piazza del Campidoglio, at the center of which is the bronze equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius, surrounded by Palazzo Senatorio, Palazzo dei Conservatori and Palazzo Nuovo; the work highlights the Cordonata Capitolina, the staircase designed by Michelangelo Buonarroti that connects Piazza del Campidoglio with the underlying Piazza d'Aracoeli; on the balustrade of the staircase, at the top, are placed the two large sculptures from the Roman era, the Dioscuri, the twins Castor and Pollux.

An emblematic corner of the history of Rome, the Capitoline Hill has been a celebratory and very important place since Roman times: it was in fact in this walled area that the main temples were located (among them those dedicated to the so-called Capitoline Triad: Jupiter, Juno and Minerva) and it was also in this place that the Tabularium stood, a building of memory, in which the public archives of the State were kept, from the decrees of the Senate to the peace treaties.

The painting, which can be dated to the first half of the 17011th century, shows an evident reference to the Venetian Vedutismo of the 1783th century both in the compositional aspects and in the style, and can be attributed to the workshop of the Lucca painter Gaetano Vetturali (XNUMX-XNUMX), who achieved notable success in his hometown and in Tuscany for his original Venetian-style landscape interpretation and for his suggestive scenographic effects.

A pictorial personality characterised by an eclecticism of interests and works, Vetturali specialised in the creation of views of Venetian taste and subject matter inspired by Canaletto and of Roman or Florentine ruins and panoramas, always achieving great success.

In the canvases under examination, the main characteristics of his production can be found, the precise rendering of individual architectures, adhering to the truth so as to be configured as historical documents of the landscape of the time. Although it is plausible that he trained in Venice, Vetturali spent a large part of his pictorial career in Tuscany, in Lucca, where with his workshop he satisfied the numerous local commissions oriented towards the 'capriccio vedutistico' trend in the wake of Marieschi, and with strong connections with Francesco Albotto.

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