1939.228: The Piazza del Campidoglio, Santa Maria d'Aracoeli, and the Cordonata, Rome

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1939.228

People

Follower of Giovanni Antonio Canal, called Canaletto, Italian (Venice, Italy 1697 - 1768 Venice, Italy)
Possibly by Master of the Langmatt Foundation Views
Previously follower of Bernardo Bellotto, Italian (Venice 1720 - 1780 Warsaw)
Previously Giovanni Antonio Canal, called Canaletto, Italian (Venice, Italy 1697 - 1768 Venice, Italy)

Title

The Piazza del Campidoglio, Santa Maria d'Aracoeli, and the Cordonata, Rome

Other Titles

Former Title: Castor and Pollux Square

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

18th century

Culture

Italian, Venetian

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/230493

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

58.5 x 81.3 cm (23 1/16 x 32 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Albert K. Isham, gift; to his mother Mrs. Ralph Isham (by 1931, when he died,) gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1939.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mrs. Ralph Isham

Accession Year

1939

Object Number

1939.228

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1972), p. 41
• Edgar Peters Bowron, European Paintings Before 1900 in the Fogg Art Museum: A Summary Catalogue including Paintings in the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1990)

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