1825
oil on canvas
45,6 õ 67,2
Shchedrin selected a view of the Tiber River embankment not far from the house where he lived. On one bank of the river, the round tower of the castle of S.Angelo rises; on the other bank the houses of the poor district of Trastevere rise directly from the water.
In the distance is a view of St Peter’s and the Vatican palace.
Rome was conventionally painted as a museum city full of Classical antiquities. The name of the painting – The New Rome – is typical of the Romantic artist, who observed how the natural and picturesque everyday life of the urban poor went by.
In the words of one of his contemporaries, “the artist had to copy this view eight times…Each time he would change the atmosphere and tone of the painting.”
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