Giovanni Paolo Panini, Interior of the Pantheon, Rome
Wade Fund, 1974.39 · The Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access (CC0)View original →
Giovanni Paolo Panini

Interior of the Pantheon, Rome

1747

Current Collection

Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland, United States

Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
127 × 97.8 cm
Status
In Museum Collection
Collect24 Art ID
C24-109062

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.

Provenance

Wade Fund, 1974.39

Registry history

  • 1747 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art

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