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View of the Temple of Peace in the Roman Forum
George Loring Brown (born Boston, MA 1814-died Malden, MA 1889)
1864
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Classification
- Paintings
- Dimensions
- 20 1/8 x 36 in. (51.1 x 91.4 cm)
- Culture
- Rome
- Museum
- Smithsonian Institution, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase
- Rights
- CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access), 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
View at the Smithsonian Institution
About this work
George Loring Brown spent almost a year in Rome in the 1840s and created many sketches and paintings. He painted this piece twenty years later, while living in Boston with his family. He tried to establish himself as a painter of American landscapes, but found that his patrons far preferred his Italian scenes (Landscapes of Europe and America 1834-1880, George Loring Brown, Robert Hull Fleming Museum, 1973). This painting shows the ruins of the Temple of Peace, near the Coliseum in Rome, with St. Peter's Basilica rising in the distance.
