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
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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 |
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| Keywords Iconclass |
11Q712
church (exterior)
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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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