Franz Nadorp - Artist Info

About Franz Nadorp

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    In 1850, the Rome-based painter Franz Nadorp submitted our painting to the Academy exhibition in Berlin. It ostensibly depicts a Roman landscape with a view of the Campagna. The view, partially obscured by mighty pines, extends to the right of St. Peter's across the Tiber plain, where a flock of sheep is grazing, to a hill covered with umbrella pines. In front of the pine trees lies an inconspicuous, simple building, which is nevertheless one of the most frequently depicted buildings in Rome in the first half of the 19th century – the legendary Casina di Raffaello, supposedly the "divine"'s country house on the Pincio, where, according to legend, he recuperated from his work in the arms of his lover Fornarina....

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