ROOM 6
The Roman Senate
Finery
belonging to nineteenth-century senators of Rome
ROOM 7
The City of the Grand Tour
Views of
Rome in the second half of 1700 and early 1800:
“Campo
Vaccino” about 1780 and the “Temple of Fortuna Virile” about 1780 Abraham
Louis Rodolphe Ducros and Giovanni Volpato
(1735/1803)
“Piazza S.
Maria del Pianto” about 1840 by the Englishman John
Ruskin (1819/1900)
“Triumphal Arch on St. Angelo’s
Bridge for the Feast of the Federation” and “Altar of Homeland on
St. Peter’s Square”
1798 by Felice Giani (1758/1823)
“The
paintings were made to commemorate the most important ceremony which took place
in Rome after the French occupation and the proclamation of the Jacobin
Republic on February 10, 1798: the Feast of the Federation which was celebrated
on the 20th of March. Felice Giani, describes the complex choreography of
military parades, along Rome, occupying the symbolic places of the papal city.
The second image documents the final event, held in St. Peter's Square, the
arrival of the troops on horseback directed toward the Altar of Homeland and
preceded by the row of deputies and representatives of the departments. With an
evocative style, rich in descriptive details, the table demonstrates the
participation of the artist, fervent revolutionary to the propaganda initiatives
of the French government” (Official website of the Museo di Roma -
www.museodiroma.it)
ROOM 8
Urban settings
“Cabinet with drawers and eighteen views of Rome” known as studiolo, end
of seventeenth century, in carved and gilded wood and painted parchment
“Capriccio
with the Arch of Titus” second half of the seventeenth century by Viviano Codazzi (1604/70)
“As for
Alessandro Magnasco, tiny figures are distributed in an animated space, but to
his rapid style and to his popular subjects the Roman painters, who had as a
precursor Viviano Codazzi, opposed a noble way: the golden light of Rome
replaces the stormy skies of Salvator Rosa and monumental perspectives with
large squares, and sometimes ruins with shady boughs take the place of the dark
ravines” (André Chastel)
ROOM 9
The view
“Fog over Rome” 1847, “Roman Forum” 1841, “The Colosseum” about 1845 and “The Colosseum seen from above”
1855 by Ippolito Caffi (1809/66)
“The unusual
view of the Fog of Rome shows how in the mid-1800s the descriptive concern was
substituted by an unmistakably modern attention for the atmospheric phenomena”
(Brief Guide to the Museum of Rome)
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