Caspar Van Wittel paints Rome, its monuments and its atmospheres

Almost 50 years of painting

Caspar Van Wittel established all his life in the city of Rome, and painted its landscapes quite a bit.

This is a very good documentations for all historians too, as he documented the 'Urbs Aeterna' (Eternal City) at its best, in very varied images, even if a little serial work like Giovanni Paolo Panini was done, painting was still a work, after all.

Canaletto who was in Rome a few times from 1716 to 1720 could have seen some of his work, van Wittel was very likely the most traditional (since 1680) landscape painter in Rome, and their style didn't differ much, in comparison to other Dutch landscape painters of the time.

Caspar Van Wittel seems to have painted quite little after 1724 when his eyesight deteriorated ...

 

 

 

 

 

Caspar van Wittel: The Colosseum and Arch of Constantine - Oil on canvas
Caspar van Wittel: The Colosseum and Arch of Constantine
Oil on canvas - size (HxW): 27x48.5 cm

Caspar van Wittel: [1685] - View of Tiber in Rome - Oil on canvas - Kunsthistorishes Museum, Wien

 

Caspar van Wittel: Rome, a view of the River Tiber at the Porto della Legna - Oil on canvas
Caspar van Wittel: [1688-90] - Via Capo le Case - Oil on canvas - Museo di Roma, Palazzo Braschi, Roma
Caspar van Wittel: [1707] - View of the Colosseum and Arch of Constantine from the East, Rome - Oil on canvas - Private Collection
Caspar van Wittel: View of the Tiber at the level of the break bridge in Rome - Oil on canvas - Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna, Milano
Caspar van Wittel: [1718-21] - Veduta di Roma con Piazza del Popolo - Oil on canvas - Palazzo Zevallos Stigliano, Napoli
Caspar van Wittel: Ponte Sisto, Rome - Tempera on paper - Musei Capitolini, Roma
Caspar van Wittel: [1683] - View of Rome with the Villa Medici - Tempera on paper - Collezione Odescalchi, Roma
Caspar van Wittel: [ca. 1711] - St. Peter's in Rome - Oil on canvas - Private Collection
Caspar van Wittel: [1699] - Piazza Navona, Rome - Oil on canvas - Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid
Caspar van Wittel: Palazzo del Quirinale (The Quirinale Palace) - Oil on canvas
Caspar van Wittel: View of the Campo Vaccino with the Arch of Septimius Severus - Oil on canvas
Caspar van Wittel: [1690] - Rome, a view of the Port of Ripa Grande - Oil on canvas
Caspar van Wittel: Rome, a view of Piazza San Giovanni Laterano with figures and horse-drawn carts - Oil on canvas - Private Collection
Caspar van Wittel: [ca. 1703-10] - St. Peter's Basilica in Rome - Oil on canvas - Kunsthistorishes Museum, Wien
Caspar van Wittel: [1700] - A view of St. Peter's Basilica, Rome - Oil on canvas
Caspar van Wittel: [ca. 1700] - View of Tor di Nona - Tempera on parchment - Musei Capitolini, Roma
Caspar van Wittel: [1736] - Rome, a view of Piazza del Popolo - Oil on canvas - Private Collection
Caspar van Wittel: [ca. 1683] - Trinità dei Monti, Rome - Tempera on paper - Collezione Odescalchi, Roma
Caspar van Wittel: [1711] - View of the Colosseum and the roman forum - Oil on canvas - Galleria Sabauda , Torino
Caspar van Wittel: [ca. 1680-1720] - Rome, Piazza Navona with Palazzo Pamphilj and the churches of Sant'Agnese in Agone and San Giacomo degli Spagnoli - Oil on canvas
Caspar van Wittel: [ca. 1690] - Rome, view of the Tiber at Ripa Grande - Oil on canvas

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