Description: This painting is an example of the “capricci” characteristic of Giovanni Paolo Panini: monuments of antiquity, placed freely on the canvas, are prevalent than the human figures,with smaller size and rendered lightly and loosely.
In this case, the monuments depicted are the Arch of Titus and the columns of the Temple of Castor and Pollux in the foreground, the Arch of Septimius Severus and Diva Faustina in the background, with the Aracoeli, situated on the Capitoline Hill, closing the scene. The lively color range and the elegant brushstrokes lead scholars to date the painting to the fifth decade of the eighteenth century.