# A Section of the Via Sacra, Rome [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [ECKERSBERG, Christoffer Wilhelm]() - Date: 1801-1850 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 31 x 44 cm ## Commentary This view depicts the fourth-century Temple of Romulus and Remus, which forms the vestibule of the sixth-century Church of Sts Cosmas and Damian. In Rome, between 1813 and 1816, Eckersberg produced a series of urban prospects remarkable for their scrupulously simple compositions and saturated hues. These studies were painted in repeated sittings before the motif in order to faithfully reproduce the effects of the Mediterranean sun on architectural ensembles. ## Related artworks - [A Brig under Sail in Fair Weather]() - [A View through Three Arches of the Third Storey of the Colosseum]() - [At a Window in the Artist's Studio]() - [Mendel Levin Nathanson's Elder Daughters, Bella and Hanna]() - [Morning Toilette]() - [Seated Nude Model]() - [The Cloisters, San Lorenzo fuori le mura]() - [The Russian Ship of the Line "Asow" and a Frigate at Anchor near Elsinore]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()