Ruin of an Amphitheatre at Pouzzoles (Kingdom of Naples), plate 9 from Oeuvres de A. Calame
Alexandre Calame (published by F. Delarue (French, 1805-1886); printed by Jacomme et Compagnie (French, 19th century))
1851
- Medium
- Lithograph on buff chine collé, laid down on off-white wove paper
- Classification
- Dimensions
- Image: 28.7 × 19.3 cm (11 5/16 × 7 5/8 in.); Sheet: 40.6 × 29 cm (16 × 11 7/16 in.)
- Culture
- Switzerland
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- The Charles Deering Collection
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
Ruin of an Amphitheater at Pouzzoles (Kingdom of Naples) was made after a lost 1845 sketch by the painter and engraver Alexandre Calame. Created during the middle of Calame’s trip to Italy, this image depicts a plainly dressed hermit standing amidst a large ruin and quietly reading a book, perhaps the Bible. Calame, a Calvinist, employed the grandiose ruins of the amphitheater as an evocation of God’s power over man.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
