Marcus Curtius Leaping into the Chasm

1713·Pen and brown ink and iron-gall ink, brush and black and gray ink, and black chalk, on ivory laid paper, laid down on cream laminate card·27.4 × 41.8 cm (10 13/16 × 16 1/2 in.)

Catalogue

Year: 1713
Medium: Pen and brown ink and iron-gall ink, brush and black and gray ink, and black chalk, on ivory laid paper, laid down on cream laminate card
Dimensions: 27.4 × 41.8 cm (10 13/16 × 16 1/2 in.)
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
Artist: Giovanni Paolo Panini

Artist

Giovanni Paolo Panini

Painting

Giovanni Paolo Panini was an Italian painter and architect renowned for his vedute, or architectural views, of Rome rendered with theatrical precision and luminous atmosphere. Working in the 18th century, he specialized in capricci, imaginative compositions combining real and invented monuments, and documentary records of papal ceremonies and antiquities. His meticulous oil paintings on canvas established the aesthetic vocabulary for the Grand Tour market and influenced vedutisti across Europe. Panini also served as professor of perspective at the Accademia di San Luca in Rome, systematizing the mathematical principles underlying his compositions.

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