# View of the Forum Looking towards the Capitol [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [PANNINI, Giovanni Paolo]() - Date: 1701-1750 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 58 x 94 cm ## Commentary This view is taken from the Arch of Constantine looking northwards to the Capitoline Hill. It testifies to the artist's originality when recording the topography of his city, combining the ancient and the modern and animating it with figures drawn from contemporary life. The painting is signed with initials and dated on a fragment of masonry, lower left: I. P. P. 1751. ## 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]()