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| Keywords: Gaspar van Wittel - View of Tivoli - Walters 371175.jpg Walters Art Museum artwork Q18748528 Creator Caspar van Wittel The high viewpoint allows the artist to show much of the town of Tivoli near Rome featuring the famous circular 1st-century BC Temple of Vesta and the bridge over the thundering falls of the Tiber River This view combining a heroic element of nature antiquity and the increasingly popular theme of the city was first defined as an almost iconic image of Italy for northern artists by the great 16th-century Flemish artist Pieter Bruegel Van Wittel was among the Dutch landscape painters who went to Italy and he settled there in 1674 His focus on the topography of the landscape and the small size of many of his paintings made his works attractive to tourists as souvenirs of their visit Zeri Italian paintings in the Walters Art Gallery 390 505-506 ca 1700 Baroque Oil on canvas Present painted surface and stretcher cm 35 7 46 4 accession number 37 1175 11864 Don Marcello Massarenti Collection Rome date and mode of acquisition unknown 1897 catalogue no 461 Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters with the Massarenti Collection 1902 on the ground near the figure of the artist The Origins of the Italian Veduta Brown University Bell Gallery List Art Center Providence 1978 Romance and Reality Aspects of Landscape Painting Wildenstein Company New York 1978 place of origin Rome Italy Walters Art Museum license 2D Baroque paintings in the Walters Art Museum Caspar van Wittel Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review | ||||
