Rome, the Campo Vaccino Looking toward the Capitoline

1630 · Galleria dell'Accademia di San Luca, Rome

landscape

The painting shows a view of the Campo Vaccino, as the Roman Forum was called in the 17th century, with the Capitoline Hill in the background. The church of Santa Maria Liberatrice, with its simple façade dating from 1617, dominates the left foreground. The church was demolished in 1899 to make way for archeological excavations.

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Rome, the Campo Vaccino Looking toward the Capitoline

About the Artist

Viviano Codazzi

1604 – 1670

Italian painter. He arrived in Naples about 1634, having almost certainly trained in Rome. He belonged to the numerous followers of Pieter van Laer, a Dutch painter working in Rome. This group of painter was known as the 'Bamboccianti' after the nickname of van Laer. Codazzi was a specialist in the realistic architectural 'veduta ', and his interest in this theme may have been stimulated in Rome by the quadratura frescoes of Agostino Tassi and by the urban views of Claude Lorrain and Herman van Swanevelt. His son Niccolo (1642-1693) was also an architectural painter.

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