# Piazza Navona in Rome [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [PANNINI, Giovanni Paolo]() - Date: 1701-1750 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 107 x 248 cm ## Commentary The painting depicts the preparation of the fireworks and decoration on the occasion of the birth of the Dauphin \(1729-1765\), son of Louis XV and Marie Leczinska. The celebration on the Piazza Navona in Rome was organized by Cardinal Melchior de Polignac, the ambassador of France at the Vatican. <p> <table align=left cellpadding=5 border=1 width=320 bgcolor="\#99cccc"> <tr valign=middle><td><img src="/support/gif/listen.gif" border=0 valign=middle> Suggested listening \(streaming mp3, 18 minutes\):<br><a href="\#" onClick="w=window.open \('/music1/18\_cent/handel\_fireworks.html', 'newWin', 'scrollbars=yes,status=no,dependent=yes,screenX=0,screenY=0,width=350,height=350'\);w.opener=this;w.focus\(\);return true"><b>Handel: Fireworks Music</b></a> </td></tr></table> ## Related artworks - [Alexander the Great at the Tomb of Achilles]() - [Alexander the Great Cutting the Gordian Knot]() - [Apostle Paul Preaching on the Ruins]() - [Architectural Capriccio]() - [Architectural Capriccio]() - [Belisarius at the Gate of Constantinople]() - [Capriccio of Classical Ruins]() - [Capriccio of Classical Ruins]() - [Charles III at St Peter's]() - [Classical Ruins with Figures]() - [Departure of the Duc de Choiseul from the Piazza di San Pietro]() - [Expulsion of the Moneychangers from the Temple]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()