Piazza della Rotonda and the Pantheon

Piazza della Rotonda and the Pantheon is an oil on canvas cityscape painting by Bernardo Bellotto and his son Lorenzo, from 1769, based on an engraving by Piranesi. It and its pair View of the Forum in Rome are both now in the Pushkin Museum, in Moscow. It shows Piazza della Rotonda and the Pantheon, in Rome.

Piazza della Rotonda and the Pantheon (1769) by Bernardo Bellotto

It was commissioned by Stanisław August Poniatowski as part of a series of views of Rome for his royal residence at Ujazd near Warsaw (Bellotto had been a court painter for him since 1767). The set was split up in 1819, with some of them taken out of Poland. Two paintings from the series were sold at Christie's for $12.3 million.[1]

Four ended up in Russia in the Stepanovskoye-Volosovo estate of Princess Elizabeth Alekseevna Naryshkina.[2] They were seized by the Soviet state on the October Revolution and were first placed in the Tretyakov Gallery, then other museums. Two of the four are now in the Pushkin Museum.[3][4][5]

References
  1. (in Russian) Картина Боттичелли продана за рекордную сумму. LENTA.RU (8 декабря 2006).
  2. (in Russian) V Markova, Венецианская ведута: образы времени. — М.: Арт Волхонка, 2018. — С. 48—63. — 128 pages — ISBN 978-5-906848-81-9, pages 94-95
  3. (in Russian) Бернардо Беллотто. Вид Римского форума. 1769. Государственный музей изобразительных искусств им. А. С. Пушкина. Официальный сайт.
  4. (in Russian) Бернардо Беллотто. Пьяцца Ротонда с видом на Пантеон. 1769. Государственный музей изобразительных искусств им. А. С. Пушкина. Официальный сайт.
  5. (in Russian) Каталог живописи ГМИИ им. Пушкина, 1995.
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