Carroll Beckwith, Palazzo Barberini, Rome
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from Cooper-Hewitt Museum of Decorative Arts and Design, Smithsonian Institution · Smithsonian American Art Museum, Smithsonian Open Access (CC0)View original →
Carroll Beckwith

Palazzo Barberini, Rome

ca. 1910

Current Collection

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C., United States

Medium
oil on wood
Dimensions
22.2 × 12.1 cm
Status
In Museum Collection
Collect24 Art ID
C24-138312

The imposing building in this painting was the home of the Barberinis, a wealthy family who held political and religious offices in Rome in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In 1910, Carroll Beckwith lived in Rome, where he captured in his paintings the effects of light on the landscape. Beckwith believed in the importance of studying the art of the past and felt that modernism was “doing …

Provenance

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from Cooper-Hewitt Museum of Decorative Arts and Design, Smithsonian Institution

Registry history

  • ca. 1910 — Recorded in the collection of Smithsonian American Art Museum

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