Offered by Antichità Castelbarco
Gaetano Vetturali (Tuscany, Lucca, 1701-1783) workshop
View of Rome with the Piazza del Campidoglio and the Cordonata
Oil on canvas 44 x 75 - Framed 61 x 90
The Roman view examined here shows us one of the most famous places in the Eternal City, where the painter, as if in a snapshot, immortalises a precise moment in the urban life of the time, animated by numerous elegantly dressed men and women.
We can see the majestic Piazza del Campidoglio, with the bronze equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius in the centre, surrounded by the Palazzo Senatorio, Palazzo dei Conservatori and Palazzo Nuovo; the painting highlights the Cordonata, the stairway designed by Michelangelo Buonarroti that connects Piazza del Campidoglio with the Piazza d'Aracoeli below; on the balustrade of the staircase, at the top, are two large Roman sculptures of the Dioscuri, the twins Castor and Pollux.
An emblematic corner for the history of Rome, the Capitoline Hill has been a place of celebration and great importance since Roman times: it was in fact in this walled area that the main temples were located (including those dedicated to the so-called Capitoline Triad: Jupiter, Juno and Minerva) and it was also the site of the Tabularium, a building of memory, where the public archives of the State were kept, from the decrees of the Senate to the peace treaties.
The painting, datable to the first half of the 18th century, shows an evident reference to 18th century Venetian Vedutism both in its composition and style, it can be attributed to the workshop of the Lucca painter Gaetano Vetturali (17011-1783), who achieved considerable success in his home town and in Tuscany for his original interpretation of landscapes in the Venetian style and for the evocative scenic effects.
A painter characterised by an eclecticism of interests and works, Vetturali specialised in the creation of Venetian-style views inspired by Canaletto, and of Roman or Florentine ruins and panoramas, always enjoying great success. In the paintings in question we can see the main characteristics of his production, the precise rendering of the individual buildings, so true to life as to constitute historical documents of the landscape of the time.
Although it is plausible that he trained in Venice, Vetturali spent most of his painting career in Tuscany, in Lucca, where his workshop fulfilled numerous local commissions in the style of the ‘capriccio vedutistico’ in the wake of Marieschi, and with strong connections to Francesco Albotto.
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