# Crypt of San Martino ai Monti, Rome [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [GRANET, François-Marius]() - Date: 1801-1850 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 126 x 159 cm ## Commentary Among the first of a number of artists to take a pictorial interest in Roman ritual, rather than in the traditional Christian iconography, was the young Provençal Granet, who while studying in Rome began painting church interiors with officiating clergy. This new genre anticipated the medievalism of his Troubadour compatriots and found a ready market. His haunting Crypt of San Martino ai Monti, a view of the vaults which were once part of the ancient Baths of Trajan, includes a female corpse in its white shroud, while a hooded priest and his acolyte prepare for the committal. ## Related artworks - [Crypt of San Martino ai Monti, Rome \(detail\)]() - [Interior of the Choir in the Capuchin Church on the Plazza Barberini in Rome]() - [Meeting of the Monastic Chapter]() - [Monks in a Cave]() - [Quay of the Seine with Barge, Fog Effect]() - [San Trinità dei Monti and the Villa Medici, Rome]() - [Stella in Prison]() - [The San Rocco Bridge and the Grand Waterfall at Tivoli]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()