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Panini, Architectural Capriccio (Christie’s Old Master Preview)

January 21, 2011 by Marion Maneker

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In this view Panini includes no less than eight buildings and eleven other monuments and works of art brought together from various sites around Rome in a tour de force of architectural rendering. Represented (from left to right) is the Column of Trajan, Temple of Saturn, a personification of the Tiber, the Lion of the Scalinata of the Campidoglio, the Adventus relief from the Arch of Constantine, the Arch of Constantine itself, Temple of Vesta, Pyramid of Caius Cestius, Arch of Drusus, Colosseum, an obelisk, Sarcophagus of Constantina, Temple of Castor and Pollux, a maenad relief, the Belvedere Torso, the Borghese Vase, Basilica of Maxentius, and the Column of Marcus Aurelius.

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