# A Scene in the Roman Campagna [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [BLOEMEN, Jan Frans van]() - Date: 1651-1700 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 172 x 237 cm ## Commentary A Scene in the Roman Campagna c. 1736 Oil on canvas, 172 x 237 cm Private collection The painting shows a scene in the Roman Campagna with a capriccio view of Tivoli and a bolt of lightning. In this, as in other Arcadian landscapes painted by the artist, Van Bloemen shows his skill in rendering different atmospheric effects. We sense the storm moving swiftly over the landscape, the storm-clouds being driven by a wind which bends trees under its force. The bolt of lightning in the centre of the painting is a motif which recurs in other paintings by Van Bloemen, but never on the same scale or with the same dramatic emphasis as it does here. ## Related artworks - [Arcadian Landscape]() - [Capriccio View of Rome]() - [Classical Landscape]() - [Classical Landscape]() - [Classical Landscape]() - [Classical Landscape]() - [Classical Landscape with Figures]() - [Flight into Egypt]() - [Italian Landscape]() - [Landscape with a Fountain]() - [Landscape with Figures]() - [Rest on the Flight to Egypt]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()