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View of the Colosseum in Rome, ca. 1837

  • oil paint, canvas
  • 73.9 x 110 cm
  • Inv. 1837-A

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Like many artists Josse Sébastien Van den Abeele spent some time in Italy. He returned home with landscapes such as A view of the Coliseum in Rome. The Roman monuments, the city’s landscape and its picturesque inhabitants provided Van den Abeele with an endless source of inspiration. The shifting landscape and the decreasing intensity of the colour palette gradually direct the onlooker’s eyes into the distance. In such works the Romantic interest in ruins is often combined with an archaeological interest in antique remains. The presence of figures is secondary and emphasizes the buildings’ monumental character.

Artist

Josse Sébastien Van den Abeele RKD VIAF Wikidata
Ghent 1797 - Ghent 1855
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Title View of the Colosseum in Rome
Date ca. 1837
Period 19th century
Location Rome TGN
Collection paintings AAT
Object type oil paintings (visual works) AAT
Inventory number 1837-A
Acquisition credit gift
Belgian State
1837
Current whereabouts Work on display
Permalink https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/1837-A
IIIF Manifest https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/68/manifest.json
Art & Architecture Thesaurus 300015571 cityscapes (representations) AAT
Keywords Iconclass 11Q712 church (exterior) Iconclass
22 natural phenomena Iconclass
22C light Iconclass
22C1 natural light Iconclass
22C8 shadow Iconclass
24A2 sunset Iconclass
25G plants; vegetation Iconclass
25G3 trees Iconclass
25G31 shrubs Iconclass
25H153 bush, shrubs ~ forest Iconclass
25I12 prospect of city, town panorama, silhouette of city Iconclass
25I144 square, place, circus, etc. Iconclass
25I9 landscape with ruins Iconclass
43A422 triumphal arch Iconclass
45L43 devastated, ruined place or city (~ warfare) Iconclass
47G91 collapsing building Iconclass
48C141 representation of real building (either existing or having existed) Iconclass
48C149 ruin of a building ~ architecture Iconclass
61D(ITALY) geographical names of countries, regions, mountains, rivers, etc. (names of cities and villages excepted) (ITALY) Iconclass
61E(ROME) names of cities and villages (ROME) Iconclass
61F(ARCH OF CONSTANTINE) names of historical buildings, sites, streets, etc. (ARCH OF CONSTANTINE) Iconclass
61F(COLOSSEUM) names of historical buildings, sites, streets, etc. (COLOSSEUM) Iconclass
61F(FORUM ROMANUM) names of historical buildings, sites, streets, etc. (FORUM ROMANUM) Iconclass
School / Style Neoclassical AAT
Catalogus van het Museum van Schoone Kunsten Gent : II: Moderne Meesters / Georges Chabot, Fritz Van Loo. - Gent : Ad. Hoste, 1932 (p. 16)
Om en rond het neo-classicisme in België 1770-1830 (tentoonstelling Elsene, Gemeentemuseum, 14.11.1985 - 8.2.1986) / Denis Coekelberghs, Pierre Loze, Alain Jacobs, Antoine Schnapper, Barbara Issaverdens. - Brussel : Société Royale d'Archéologie de Bruxelles, 1985 ; Elsene (Brussel) : Museum van Elsene, 1985 (p. 316, cat. 295 (ill. XXXI))
Aanwinsten : Barok tot classicisme (tentoonstelling Gent, Museum voor Schone Kunsten, 09.03 - 09.04.1989). - Gent : Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent, 1989 (s.p., (ill. 18))
200 jaar verzamelen : Collectieboek Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent / Arnout Balis, Robert Hoozee, Maximiliaan P.J. Martens, Paul Van Haute. - Gent : Ludion, 2000 (p. 266 (ill. 63))
Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent : Catalogus schilderkunst ; Deel I: 14de - 18de eeuw ; Deel II: 19de - 20ste eeuw / Robert Hoozee, Johan De Smet, Bruno Fornari, Ruth Monteyne. - Gent : Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent, 2007 (dl. II, p. 45 (ill.))
Het Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent : een keuze uit de mooiste werken / Patrick De Rynck. - Gent : Ludion, 2007 (p. 59)
Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent : De collectie (tentoonstelling vanaf 21 maart 2021) / Johan De Smet, Bart Ooghe, Frederica Van Dam, Lieven Van Den Abeele, Cathérine Verleysen. - Gent : Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent, 2021
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Gand : La Collection (exposition dès le 21 mars 2021) / Johan De Smet, Bart Ooghe, Frederica Van Dam, Lieven Van Den Abeele, Cathérine Verleysen. - Gand : Musée des Beaux-Arts de Gand, 2021
onder vrienden : 225 jaar verzamelaars rond het Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent (tentoonstelling Gent, Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent, 25.11.2023 - 28.04.2024) / Johan De Smet, Frederica Van Dam, Willy Van der Gucht, Manfred Sellink. - Gent : Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent, 2023 ; Gent : De Vrienden van het Museum, 2023 (cover; p. 2, cat. 2 (ill.))
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