European Artists in Rome in the 1700’s

Rome was an important place for artists in the 18th century. This visit will explore the rooms dedicated to the great painters who in the 1700’s came to Rome to live and study.  The capital became, in fact, a must for an artist’s training, both because of the wealth of the collections of antiquities and grand masters of the Renaissance and 17th century as well as the excellent system of instruction: from the Accademia di San Luca, to the Accademia del Nudo in Campidoglio as well as the prestigious private academies of Sebastiano Conca, Pompeo Batoni, and Anton Raphael Mengs.
Several paintings from the museum’s collection which are of particular importance will be examined: the large paintings that recount the stories of Paris and Helen of Troy, the paintings by the Scottish artist Gavin Hamilton for the casino Borghese, the landscapes of the Swiss artist Louis Ducroz which celebrate the draining of the Pontine marches ordered of Pope Pius VI, a portrait of Miss Catherine Bishop by Joshua Reynolds, an important religious painting by the French artist Pierre Subleyras as well as other examples of the extensive presence of European artists in Rome in the 18th century.