Art Institute of Chicago
A View in San Lorenzo Fuori le Mura, Rome
Gustav Friedrich Hetsch
- Date
- c. 1820
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink and brush and various brown washes on ivory wove paper, edge-mounted to an ivory laid paper inlay
- Culture
- Germany
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
Hetsch was an influential Danish-German architect and teacher, known for the meticulous technique and the Romantic classicism of his drawings. In 1812 he went to Rome and in 1815 to Copenhagen. This sheet is interesting for its coded commentary: the processing clerics and the women kneeling in prayer before a reliquary altar model religious devotion, but the presence of two beggars on the steps of the church poignantly underscores more earthly concerns.
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