Rare Rome vedute with a view over the river Tiber on Ponte Sant’Angelo and Castel Sant’Angelo

18th - 19th century Porphyry and Pietre Dure and Scagliola, Works of Art

Date: Rome around 1820 – 1830

Measurement: 23 cm (high), 37 cm (wide)

Colored mosaic stones, black marble. Gilded frame.

Rare Rome vedute with a view over the river Tiber on Ponte Sant’Angelo and Castel Sant’Angelo, in the background Saint Peter and the Vatican.

Provenance:
Acquired in study trips around Rome in 1870 and since then in a private collection in Berlin

Literature:
Domenico Petochi: I Mosaici Minuti Romani, Rome 1981. For the motif, see p. 171.