Festival in Piazza Navona

Festival in Piazza Navona

Giovanni Paolo PaniniWW-1729-050336
1729·Oil on canvas·26.8 × 45 cm (10 9/16 × 17 3/4 in.); Framed: 35.6 × 53.7 × 7 cm (14 × 21 1/8 × 2 3/4 in.)

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Year
1729
Dimensions
26.8 × 45 cm (10 9/16 × 17 3/4 in.); Framed: 35.6 × 53.7 × 7 cm (14 × 21 1/8 × 2 3/4 in.)

Artist

Giovanni Paolo Panini
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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Year
1729
Dimensions
26.8 × 45 cm (10 9/16 × 17 3/4 in.); Framed: 35.6 × 53.7 × 7 cm (14 × 21 1/8 × 2 3/4 in.)
Watts ID
WW-1729-050336

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Source
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Status
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Artist

Giovanni Paolo Panini

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