# Roman Market Scene [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [LINGELBACH, Johannes]() - Date: 1651-1700 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 110 x 188,5 cm ## Commentary This painting confronts the spectator with a curious, if not bizarre combination of more or less identifiable topographical elements. A broad, seemingly rural, crowded market square reminiscent of the Campo Vaccino in Rome is bordered on the left by a dark row of large ruins and buildings, which enclose the scene like the wings of a stage set. On the far left is the corner of a classical temple, modelled on the nearby Temple of Saturn. Between the ruin and the tall, sturdy houses further towards the centre of the image is a narrow view of the stairway leading up to the Capitoline, depicted on a noticeably reduced scale. A prominent place on the market square has been cleared for a powerful sculptural group. In reality, this classical sculpture of a lion attacking a horse was housed in the Palazzo dei Conservatori on the Capitoline in the seventeenth century. Further to the right, the square gradually gives way to a plain with the fountain from the Campo Vaccino at the far end. The plain is demarcated by the ruins of an imaginary city or palace, beyond which we discern hills reminiscent of the Latian landscape. Both square and plain are crowded with a rich variety of figures, including bird and fruit vendors, a storyteller, beggars, farmers, a horsedrawn carriage and a conspicuously large number of well-dressed Dutch burghers. It is not known whether Lingelbach's later work reached Rome and Venice as early as the seventeenth century. Still it seems probable that Luca Carlevaris must have known Lingelbach's paintings, for compositional formulae characteristic of the Dutch artist recur in many of Carlevaris's paintings, whether these are topographically correct or not. ## Related artworks - [A Sea Battle]() - [Bathing Gypsies]() - [Battle of Lepanto]() - [Battle Scene]() - [Crowd in the Piazza del Popolo in Rome]() - [Flemish Town Sieged by the Spanish Soldiers]() - [Peasants Dancing]() - [Peasants Resting Before an Inn]() - [River Landscape]() - [Roman Street Scene]() - [The Battle of Lepanto]() - [Watermill with Peasants Taking Refreshments]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()