Dozens of men and women wander through a tall interior space lined with statues and columns and topped by a soaring domed roof in this vertical painting. The people are small in scale within the cavernous space. The women wear long, full dresses and the men wear knee-length waistcoats and stockings in shades of dark blue, crimson red, pine green, marigold orange, or brown. Three people wear clothing of the clergy: two of them, on our left, wear long, ginger-brown robes under white mantles, and a third person on our right wears a hip-length, diaphanous white cape over a long dark blue robe.…
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Interior of the Pantheon, Rome

Giovanni Paolo Panini (Roman, 1691 - 1765)

c. 1734

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 128 x 99 cm (50 3/8 x 39 in.) ; framed: 144.1 x 114.3 cm (56 3/4 x 45 in.)
Culture
Roman
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CIS-B
Credit line
Samuel H. Kress Collection
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed

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