Gallery 620 - Rome and Naples in the Eighteenth Century

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  • Diana and Cupid
    Diana and Cupid

    Pompeo Batoni (Italian, Lucca 1708–1787 Rome)

    Date: 1761
    Accession Number: 1982.438

  • Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717–1768)
    Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717–1768)

    Anton Raphael Mengs (German, Ústi nad Labem (Aussig) 1728–1779 Rome)

    Date: ca. 1777
    Accession Number: 48.141

  • Ancient Rome
    Ancient Rome

    Giovanni Paolo Panini (Italian, Piacenza 1691–1765 Rome)

    Date: 1757
    Accession Number: 52.63.1

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In Rome, artists catered to Englishmen and others making the Grand Tour with spectacular portraits (the most beautiful examples are by Pompeo Batoni), mythologies, and view paintings. Visitors could also return with their memories of ancient and modern Rome captured in canvases such as the pair in this gallery by Giovanni Paolo Panini. It was an era of archaeological discoveries and of renewed interest in the ancient world. Pierre Hubert Subleyras, Corrado Giaquinto, and Francesco Trevisani decorated the city's churches with altarpieces and its palaces with religious paintings. In Naples, by contrast, Gaspare Traversi depicted genre scenes with comic undercurrents.

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