Rome with St. Peter's and Castel Sant'Angelo
Gustaf Söderberg Swedish
Not on view
By the nineteenth century, the panoramic view seen in this small painting had been reproduced in prints so often that one visitor to Rome described his first sight of it as "half recognition and half surprise." One distinctive feature of Söderberg’s version is the use of stippling to record visual data on a minute scale, including cows on the Tiber’s western embankment and Bernini’s sculptures of saints along the bridge.
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