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| Title | Capriccio with Statuary | |
| Collection | Brighton Museum and Art Gallery | |
| Artist | Attributed to school of Gaspari, Giovanni Paolo (Italian architect and scenographer, 1714-1775) | |
| Date Earliest | about 1740 | |
| Date Latest | about 1760 | |
| Description | This painting presents classical statues within a setting of ruined architecture. The classical style of the architecture echoes that of the statues. This depiction of architectural ruins reflects an interest in their romantic connotations that was growing in the eighteenth century and can be seen particularly in the follies appearing in garden design of the period. This romantic composition of sculpture within an architectural setting would have appealed particularly to travellers on the Grand Tour. | |
| Current Accession Number | FA000220 | |
| Subject | interior (classical ruins, statues) | |
| Measurements | 35.2 x 51.5 cm cm (estimate) | |
| Material | oil on canvas | |
| Acquisition Details | Purchased from the Heim Gallery, London, with funds from C. F. N. Bergh bequest and the Victoria and Albert Museum Purchase Grant Fund 1970. | |
| Publications | Public Catalogue Foundation, Oil Paintings in Public Ownership in East Sussex, London, 2005, ill. p. 85. | |
| Rights Owner | Brighton Museum and Art Gallery | |
| Author | Bryony Bartlett-Rawlings | |