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Interior of the Pantheon, Rome

1747

Giovanni Paolo Panini

(Italian, 1691–1765)
Culture
Italy, 18th century
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
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.)
Credit Line
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1974.39
Public Domain
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Location
217 Italian Baroque
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Did You Know?

Panini's depictions of contemporary and ancient Rome were popular with foreigners who visited the city on their Grand Tours.

Description

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.
Vertically oriented oil painting depicting the interior of the Pantheon, a domed structure with a hole showing cloudy, blue sky in the center. The hole concentrates a circle of light on the dome's interior, between the dome's sunken, square pattern and the orange-brown columns lining the walls. People barely taller than the columns' bases gather in groups across the Pantheon's interior. White statues intersperse with the columns and, at the far center, doors stand open.

Interior of the Pantheon, Rome

1747

Giovanni Paolo Panini

(Italian, 1691–1765)
Italy, 18th century

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