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Interior of the Pantheon, Rome
Giovanni Paolo Panini1747
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
Created as a temple under the Roman emperor Hadrian around the year AD 125, the Pantheon became a Christian church in 609. Significant restoration took place in the early 1700s, a period of renewed attention to early Christian monuments. The site was a major monument of antiquity, an active church, and its portico, visible through the door, held the most important art fair in the city. Panini shows the complexity of this public space by representing foreign tourists, local churchgoers, Roman nobles, and artists mingling under the dome.
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- Title: Interior of the Pantheon, Rome
- Creator: Giovanni Paolo Panini (Italian, 1691–1765)
- Date Created: 1747
- Physical Dimensions: Framed: 147.5 x 120 x 5 cm (58 1/16 x 47 1/4 x 1 15/16 in.); Unframed: 127 x 97.8 cm (50 x 38 1/2 in.)
- Provenance: Tyrwhitt-Drake ("Shardeloes," Amersham, Buckinghamshire, UK) (sold, Christie’s, London, July 25, 1952, no. 148, to Reder), 1952 - Reder, David Koetser (New York, New York), - 1969 Walter P. Chrysler, 1969 - 1974 Eugene V. Thaw (New York, New York), sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art.
- Type: Painting
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1974.39
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Inscriptions: Signed lower left: "ROMAE / [I] P. PANINI. 1747."
- Fun Fact: Panini's depictions of contemporary and ancient Rome were popular with foreigners who visited the city on their Grand Tours.
- Department: European Painting and Sculpture
- Culture: Italy, 18th century
- Credit Line: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Collection: P - Italian 18th Century
- Accession Number: 1974.39
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