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    Veduta del Tempio, e Fiume del Clitunno nello Stato presente

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    Veduta del Tempio, e Fiume del Clitunno nello Stato presente
    Veduta del Tempio, e Fiume del Clitunno nello Stato presente
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    Artist
    Giuseppe Vasi after Wilson
    Title
    Veduta del Tempio, e Fiume del Clitunno nello Stato presente
    Date
    1753
    Medium
    Engraving and etching
    Dimensions
    Metric: 220 x 308 mm (plate size)
    Imperial: 8 5/8 x 12 1/8 in. (plate size)
    Collection
    The British Museum. To license image, click here
    Accession Number
    1928,0204.7
    Wilson Online Reference
    E8
    Description
    View of the ancient Temple of Clitumnus situated on the Via Flaminia between Spoleto and Trevi.
    Exhibited
    Tercentenary 2014 (6)
    Signature/inscription
    Lettered below the image:
    [1] Centre: Veduta del Tempio, e Fiume del Clitunno nello stato presente.
    [2] Left: R. Wilson disegnò
    [3] Right: Giuseppe Vasi intagliò
    Subject
    The setting is a temple supposedly once the sanctuary of the god, Clitumnus, near Spoleto in Umbria, which was converted into a Christian church in the 4th century.
    Related Paintings
    P65 The Temple of Clitumnus, with the Cows drinking from the Spring of Clitumnus, near Spoleto, Umbria, Private Collection, Italy
    P65A The Temple of Clitumnus, Private Collection, Italy
    P65B An Italian River Scene, with the Temple of Clitumnus and Ruins, two Figures and Cows, Collection of Richard L. Feigen & Co
    P65C Landscape with Temple of Clitumnus near Spoleto, Victoria & Albert Museum, London
    P65D The Temple of Clitumnus, The National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth / Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru
    Critical commentary
    The print is from Ridolfino Venuti, Osservazioni sopra il Fiume Clitunno detto oggi Le Vene situato tra Spoleto, e Fuligno, Rome, 1753 - pl. VI. As noted by Jonathan Yarker, Wilson would have been familiar with the temple, which was mentioned by Virgil in the Georgics, and he probably saw it while travelling through Umbria on his way to Rome in 1751. Venuti was much admired by Wilson's patrons, Thomas Brand and Thomas Hollis. Wilson later painted the subject several times (see Related Paintings)
    Bibliography
    WGC p. 198 under pl. 75b; Woodbridge 1970, pl. 4b; R.W. Lightbown, 'Italy Illustrated', Apollo, vol. 94, September 1971, pp. 218 & 220; D. Marignoli, 'Richard Wilson e il Tempietto di Clitunno: L'evoluzione di un Tema', Spoletum vol. 4, 2011, pp. 107-13; Wilson and Europe 2014, p. 210
    More Information
    The site was later celebrated by Byron in Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (1812), canto iv, stanzas lxvi-lxviii.
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    2017-04-07 00:00:00

    Work of Art

    Paintings

    • The Temple of Clitumnus, with the Cows drinking from the Spring of Clitumnus, near Spoleto, Umbria, Private Collection, Italy
    • The Temple of Clitumnus, Private Collection, Italy
    • An Italian River Scene, with the Temple of Clitumnus and Ruins, two Figures and Cows, Collection of Richard L. Feigen & Co
    • Landscape with Temple of Clitumnus near Spoleto, Victoria & Albert Museum, London
    • The Temple of Clitumnus, The National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth / Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru

    Exhibitions

    • New Haven, Yale Center for British Art & Cardiff, Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales, 6 March - 29 October 2014

    Documents

    • Martin Postle & Robin Simon, Richard Wilson and the Transformation of European Landscape Painting
    • Kenneth Woodbridge, Landscape and Antiquity: Aspects of English Culture at Stourhead 1718 to 1838
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