Interior of the Pantheon, Rome
Giovanni Paolo Pannini (Italian, 1691–1765)
1706-1765
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Classification
- Painting
- Dimensions
- height 140 cm, width 125.5 cm, height 162 cm, width 147.5 cm
- Culture
- Italian
- Museum
- SMK – National Gallery of Denmark
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark: SMK waives its rights in this photograph, 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 SMK – National Gallery of Denmark
About this work
The Pantheon motif was in great demand, and Giovanni Paolo Pannini had to paint several variants of the subject to satisfy his clients. Shortly before his death, the subject was used for a print engraved by I.S. Müller and published by I. Boydell in London. The fact that a London printer dissemi-nated this popular motif is no coincidence, for the English upper classes were among the keenest customers for Pannini’s paintings of Roman architecture. English travellers on their Grand Tour wanted to bring home souvenirs from this rite of passage. Pannini has manipulated his perspec-tive and placed two columns in the foreground in order to prompt the spectator’s breathless admiration at the ancient building’s overwhelming grandeur.
