# Rome: A View of the Ponte Salario

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## Artwork

- Artist: [WITTEL, Caspar Andriaans van](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/wittel-caspar-andriaans-van-r05577800313e7f>)
- Date: 1651-1700
- Technique: Oil on panel, 27 x 41 cm

## Commentary

The Ponte Salario crosses the Aniene, a tributary of the Tiber, to the north of Rome and was originally built in the first century BCE. The structure seen in the present work was begun in the eighth century and extended in Medieval times before being largely demolished during the Napoleonic invasion of Italy.

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- [A View of Tivoli](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/wittel-caspar-andriaans-van-r05577800313e7f/a-view-of-tivoli-r3c4b9462782763>)
- [Bacino di San Marco \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/wittel-caspar-andriaans-van-r05577800313e7f/bacino-di-san-marco-detail-r75f98f3ee2dcec>)
- [Bacino di San Marco](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/wittel-caspar-andriaans-van-r05577800313e7f/bacino-di-san-marco-rda707ade0b6420>)
- [Castel Sant&#39;Angelo from the South](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/wittel-caspar-andriaans-van-r05577800313e7f/castel-santangelo-from-the-south-ra63982f8c275be>)
- [Landscape with the Villa Aldobrandini at Frascati](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/wittel-caspar-andriaans-van-r05577800313e7f/landscape-with-the-villa-aldobrandini-at-frascati-rb9eebe6c146955>)
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- [Rome: A View of The Colosseum](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/wittel-caspar-andriaans-van-r05577800313e7f/rome-a-view-of-the-colosseum-re662bb1c32ba2f>)
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## Attribution

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