Piazza della Rotonda and the Pantheon

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Piazza della Rotonda and the Pantheon is an oil-on-canvas cityscape painting by the Italian painter 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.

Stanisław August Poniatowski commissioned the work from Bellotto – a court painter for him since 1767 – as part of a series of views of Rome for his royal residence, Ujazdów Palace (at Ujazdów, near Warsaw). 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

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

Bernardo Bellotto

Paintings

The Grand Canal Facing Santa Croce (1730s) (attribution)
The Grand Canal in Venice (c. 1736–1740)
Capriccio with the Campidoglio (c. 1742)
Dresden From the Right Bank of the Elbe Above the Augustus Bridge (1747)
Dresden From the Right Bank of the Elbe Below the Augustus Bridge (1748)
The Imperial Pleasure Palace Schönbrunn, Courtyard Side (1759–1760)
Piazza della Rotonda and the Pantheon (1769)
Colonel Königsfels Teaching Prince Poniatowski to Ride (1773)
Miodowa Street (1777)
The Election of Stanisław August (1778)

Canaletto (oncle and master)

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