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 - (MeisterDrucke-225123).jpg "View of the River Tiber in Rome by Gaspar van Wittel")
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.jpg "View of the Colosseum with the arch of Constantine by Gaspar van Wittel")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-170971).jpg "View of Naples with the Castel dell")
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_Wittel_-_View_of_Venice_the_pier_the_square_and_the_Doges_Palace_from_the_island_of_Saint_-_(MeisterDrucke-1030217).jpg "View of Venice, the Pier, the Square and the Doge")
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.jpg "The Darsena, Naples by Gaspar van Wittel")
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.jpg "Rome: View of the Tiber to the South with the Castel Sant")
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.jpg "View of Venice, 1719 by Gaspar van Wittel")
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_Wittel_-_A_view_of_Tivoli_with_the_Temple_of_Vesta_(oil_on_canvas)_-_(MeisterDrucke-892280).jpg "A View of Tivoli with the Temple of Vesta by Gaspar van Wittel")
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_Wittel_-_Tiber_Island_by_Gaspar_van_Wittel_(circa_1652-1736)_-_(MeisterDrucke-1110722).jpg "Tiber Island by Gaspar van Wittel")
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.jpg "A View of the Piazza Navona in Rome by Gaspar van Wittel")
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.jpg "The Fontana dell")
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_Wittel_-_View_of_Verona_and_the_banks_of_the_Adige_river_-_Painting_end_of_17th-18th_cent_-_(MeisterDrucke-972254).jpg "View of Verona and the Banks of the Adige River by Gaspar van Wittel")
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_Wittel_-_View_of_Chiaia_district_Napoli_-_Painting_end_of_17th-18th_century_-_(MeisterDrucke-1001557).jpg "View of Chiaia District, Napoli by Gaspar van Wittel")
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.jpg "View of Florence from the Cascine by Gaspar van Wittel")
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_Wittel_-_Piazza_San_Pietro_Rome_-_Caspar_Adriaensz_van_Wittel_(Gaspare_Vanvitelli)_(1656-_-_(MeisterDrucke-941641).jpg "Piazza San Pietro, Rome by Gaspar van Wittel")
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_Wittel_-_View_of_Castel_Nuovo_from_the_docklands_in_Naples_-_(MeisterDrucke-1110320).jpg "View of Castel Nuovo from the Docklands in Naples by Gaspar van Wittel")
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_Wittel_-_View_of_the_Gulf_of_Naples_(painting_-_(MeisterDrucke-977456).jpg "View of the Gulf of Naples by Gaspar van Wittel")
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.jpg "A Panoramic View of Messina, Sicily by Gaspar van Wittel")
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.jpg "The Riviera of Chiaia at Naples by Gaspar van Wittel")
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.jpg "The Colosseum and the Roman Forum, 1711 by Gaspar van Wittel")
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.jpg "The Tiberian Island in Rome, 1685 by Gaspar van Wittel")
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_Wittel_-_View_of_Piazza_Navona_painting_by_Gaspar_van_Wittel_or_Gaspare_Vanvitelli_(1652_-_(MeisterDrucke-1100879).jpg "View of Piazza Navona, painting by Gaspar van Wittel or Gaspare Vanvitelli, Italy by Gaspar van Wittel")
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.jpg "Piazza Navona, Rome by Gaspar van Wittel")
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_Wittel_-_Arch_of_Septimius_Severus_in_Rome_by_Gaspar_van_Wittel_(1652_or_1653-1736)_oil_o_-_(MeisterDrucke-1109160).jpg "Arch of Septimius Severus in Rome (detail) by Gaspar van Wittel")
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_Wittel_-_A_view_of_Florence_from_the_Bologna_Road_(oil_on_canvas)_-_(MeisterDrucke-1093972).jpg "A View of Florence from the Bologna Road by Gaspar van Wittel")
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.jpg "A View of St. Peter")
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_Wittel_-_The_Tiber_to_Porto_di_Ripetta_by_Gaspar_van_Wittel_(1652_or_1653-1736)_-_(MeisterDrucke-1120164).jpg "The Tiber to Porto di Ripetta by Gaspar van Wittel")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-253344).jpg "View of the Villa Medici, Rome by Gaspar van Wittel")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-261929).jpg "Ponte Sant")
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.jpg "View of Rome, 1665 by Gaspar van Wittel")
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_Wittel_-_View_of_Naples_from_the_Sea_-_(MeisterDrucke-1092677).jpg "View of Naples from the Sea by Gaspar van Wittel")
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_Wittel_-_The_Colosseum_(oil_on_canvas)_-_(MeisterDrucke-980423).jpg "The Colosseum by Gaspar van Wittel")
_Wittel_-_The_Colosseum_(oil_on_canvas)_-_(MeisterDrucke-980423).jpg)
 - (MeisterDrucke-242083).jpg "Trinità dei Monti, Rome by Gaspar van Wittel")
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_Wittel_-_View_of_Rome_with_the_Quirinale_Palace_and_Piazza_in_the_foreground_-_(MeisterDrucke-1079450).jpg "View of Rome with the Quirinale Palace and Piazza in the Foreground by Gaspar van Wittel")
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.jpg "View of Verona by Gaspar van Wittel")
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_Wittel_-_The_Harvest_Painting_by_Gaspare_Vanvitelli_(Gaspar_van_Wittel_Caspar_Van_Vitelli_-_(MeisterDrucke-1023746).jpg "The Harvest by Gaspar van Wittel")
_Wittel_-_The_Harvest_Painting_by_Gaspare_Vanvitelli_(Gaspar_van_Wittel_Caspar_Van_Vitelli_-_(MeisterDrucke-1023746).jpg)
_-_(MeisterDrucke-555788).jpg "View of the River Tiber in Rome, from the north by Gaspar van Wittel")
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.jpg "Piazza del Popolo, Rome by Gaspar van Wittel")
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.jpg "The Dock of Naples by Gaspar van Wittel")
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_Wittel_-_View_of_Tivoli_by_Gaspar_van_Wittel_(1652_or_1653-1736)_Detail_-_(MeisterDrucke-1123528).jpg "View of Tivoli, by Gaspar van Wittel (1652 or 1653-1736) (Detail) by Gaspar van Wittel")
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_Wittel_-_Tiber_at_Castel_SantAngelo_in_Rome_by_Gaspar_van_Wittel_(1652_or_1653-1736)_-_(MeisterDrucke-1123334).jpg "Tiber at Castel Sant")
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.jpg "View of Naples by Gaspar van Wittel")
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_Wittel_-_Square_and_Palace_of_Monte_Cavallo_(oil_on_canvas)_-_(MeisterDrucke-1110196).jpg "Square and Palace of Monte Cavallo by Gaspar van Wittel")
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.jpg "View of the Aniene at Tivoli, c.1710-15 by Gaspar van Wittel")
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.jpg "View of Rome with St. Peter")
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.jpg "View of Marino, 1719 by Gaspar van Wittel")
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_Wittel_-_Italy_Rome_The_Quirinal_Palace_-_(MeisterDrucke-1117201).jpg "The Quirinal Palace by Gaspar van Wittel")
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_Wittel_-_View_of_the_Castle_of_Saint_Angelo_(SantAngelo)_in_Rome_Panorama_of_the_city_the_-_(MeisterDrucke-1030273).jpg "View of the Castle of Saint Angelo in Rome by Gaspar van Wittel")
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_Wittel_-_View_of_Naples_by_Gaspar_van_Wittel_(circa_1652-1736)_-_(MeisterDrucke-1104214).jpg "View of Naples by Gaspar van Wittel")
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.jpg "View of Naples by Gaspar van Wittel")
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_Wittel_-_Via_Capo_le_Case_-_(MeisterDrucke-1018652).jpg "Via Capo le Case by Gaspar van Wittel")
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_Wittel_-_Interior_of_Colosseum_by_Gaspar_van_Wittel_(1652_or_1653-1736)_oil_on_canvas_Det_-_(MeisterDrucke-1110100).jpg "Interior of Colosseum (detail) by Gaspar van Wittel")
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.jpg "A View of the Piazza del Popolo in Rome by Gaspar van Wittel")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-659992).jpg "Landscape at Tivoli by Gaspar van Wittel")
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.jpg "Naples, La Darsena by Gaspar van Wittel")
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_Wittel_-_Villa_Medici_in_Rome_by_Gaspar_van_Wittel_(ca_1652-1736)_-_(MeisterDrucke-1120154).jpg "Villa Medici in Rome by Gaspar van Wittel")
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_Wittel_-_View_of_the_Basilian_Monastery_at_Grottaferrata_Rome_(pen_ink_with_watercolor_o_-_(MeisterDrucke-1094126).jpg "View of the Basilian Monastery at Grottaferrata, Rome by Gaspar van Wittel")
_Wittel_-_View_of_the_Basilian_Monastery_at_Grottaferrata_Rome_(pen_ink_with_watercolor_o_-_(MeisterDrucke-1094126).jpg)
.jpg "Landscape with Ruins and a Temple by Gaspar van Wittel")
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_Wittel_-_View_of_the_Tiber_at_the_level_of_the_break_bridge_in_Rome_Painting_by_Gaspare_V_-_(MeisterDrucke-999341).jpg "View of the Tiber at the Level of the Broken Bridge in Rome by Gaspar van Wittel")
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_Wittel_-_The_Antique_Fountain_and_Arch_at_Grottaferrata_Rome_(pen_ink_with_watercolor_on_-_(MeisterDrucke-1092397).jpg "The Antique Fountain and Arch at Grottaferrata, Rome by Gaspar van Wittel")
_Wittel_-_The_Antique_Fountain_and_Arch_at_Grottaferrata_Rome_(pen_ink_with_watercolor_on_-_(MeisterDrucke-1092397).jpg)
_Wittel_-_Docklands_in_Naples_by_Gaspar_van_Wittel_(1652_or_1653-1736)_-_(MeisterDrucke-1104011).jpg "Docklands in Naples by Gaspar van Wittel")
_Wittel_-_Docklands_in_Naples_by_Gaspar_van_Wittel_(1652_or_1653-1736)_-_(MeisterDrucke-1104011).jpg)
_Wittel_-_The_Colosseum_by_Gaspar_van_Wittel_(1652_or_1653-1736)_detail_-_(MeisterDrucke-1123309).jpg "The Colosseum (detail) by Gaspar van Wittel")
_Wittel_-_The_Colosseum_by_Gaspar_van_Wittel_(1652_or_1653-1736)_detail_-_(MeisterDrucke-1123309).jpg)
_-_(MeisterDrucke-568159).jpg "View at Tivoli by Gaspar van Wittel")
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.jpg "View of Tor di Nona by Gaspar van Wittel")
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.jpg "Piazza S. Pietro, Rome by Gaspar van Wittel")
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_Wittel_-_The_Palazzo_Farnese_at_Caprarola_(ink_wash_on_paper)_-_(MeisterDrucke-1080151).jpg "The Palazzo Farnese at Caprarola by Gaspar van Wittel")
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.jpg "The Villa Medici, Rome by Gaspar van Wittel")
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.jpg "St. Peter")
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_Wittel_-_View_of_Venice_with_Giudecca_and_Customs_house_by_Gaspar_van_Wittel_(1652_or_165_-_(MeisterDrucke-1104235).jpg "View of Venice with Giudecca and Customs House (detail) by Gaspar van Wittel")
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.jpg "The Colosseum by Gaspar van Wittel")
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_Wittel_-_Chiesa_della_Salute_Grand_Canal_Venice_(pen_ink_with_watercolor_on_paper)_-_(MeisterDrucke-1094125).jpg "Chiesa della Salute, Grand Canal, Venice by Gaspar van Wittel")
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.jpg "Borromean Islands by Gaspar van Wittel")
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.jpg "A View of the Colosseum in Rome by Gaspar van Wittel")
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.jpg "View of Rome with the Castel Sant")
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.jpg "The Church of SS. Marcellino e Pietro, from the Vigna Ciccolini by Gaspar van Wittel")
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_Wittel_-_Castel_SantAngelo_in_Rome_unknown_artist_from_the_school_of_Gaspar_van_Wittel_It_-_(MeisterDrucke-1103857).jpg "Castel Sant")
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_Wittel_-_Palace_square_in_Naples_by_Gaspar_van_Wittel_(1652_or_1653-1736)_-_(MeisterDrucke-1120130).jpg "Palace square in Naples by Gaspar van Wittel")
_Wittel_-_Palace_square_in_Naples_by_Gaspar_van_Wittel_(1652_or_1653-1736)_-_(MeisterDrucke-1120130).jpg)
_Wittel_-_Basilica_di_San_Vitale_Ravenna_(pen_ink_with_watercolor_on_paper)_-_(MeisterDrucke-1087790).jpg "Basilica di San Vitale, Ravenna by Gaspar van Wittel")
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.jpg "View of Tivoli by Gaspar van Wittel")
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.jpg "View of a Street in Naples by Gaspar van Wittel")
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_Wittel_-_View_of_the_Castel_Sant_Angelo_Rome_-_(MeisterDrucke-1105348).jpg "View of the Castel Sant")
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_Wittel_-_View_of_Florence_-_(MeisterDrucke-944240).jpg "View of Florence by Gaspar van Wittel")
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_Wittel_-_Villa_Medici_in_Rome_(pencil_and_watercolour_on_paper)_-_(MeisterDrucke-1089257).jpg "Villa Medici in Rome by Gaspar van Wittel")
_Wittel_-_Villa_Medici_in_Rome_(pencil_and_watercolour_on_paper)_-_(MeisterDrucke-1089257).jpg)
_Wittel_-_Rome_Piazza_Navona_(oil_on_canvas)_-_(MeisterDrucke-1093951).jpg "Piazza Navona by Gaspar van Wittel")
_Wittel_-_Rome_Piazza_Navona_(oil_on_canvas)_-_(MeisterDrucke-1093951).jpg)
_-_(MeisterDrucke-659991).jpg "Landscape with a Round Temple by Gaspar van Wittel")
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_Wittel_-_Borromean_Islands_-_(MeisterDrucke-991519).jpg "Borromean Islands by Gaspar van Wittel")
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_Wittel_-_Landscape_with_Ruins_and_a_Temple_(pen_and_brown_ink_and_coloured_washes)_-_(MeisterDrucke-903360).jpg "Landscape with Ruins and a Temple by Gaspar van Wittel")
_Wittel_-_Landscape_with_Ruins_and_a_Temple_(pen_and_brown_ink_and_coloured_washes)_-_(MeisterDrucke-903360).jpg)
_Wittel_-_Italy_prato_The_Harvest_-_(MeisterDrucke-1117113).jpg "The Harvest by Gaspar van Wittel")
_Wittel_-_Italy_prato_The_Harvest_-_(MeisterDrucke-1117113).jpg)
_Wittel_-_View_of_Tiber_by_Gaspar_van_Wittel_(circa_1652-1736)_-_(MeisterDrucke-1117668).jpg "View of Tiber by Gaspar van Wittel")
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.jpg "Painting by Gaspar van Wittel")
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_Wittel_-_View_of_Urbino_from_the_colle_di_San_Donato_(chalk_on_paper)_-_(MeisterDrucke-1126994).jpg "View of Urbino from the colle di San Donato by Gaspar van Wittel")
_Wittel_-_View_of_Urbino_from_the_colle_di_San_Donato_(chalk_on_paper)_-_(MeisterDrucke-1126994).jpg)
_Wittel_-_View_of_Naples_-_(MeisterDrucke-978484).jpg "View of Naples by Gaspar van Wittel")
_Wittel_-_View_of_Naples_-_(MeisterDrucke-978484).jpg)
_Wittel_-_Villa_Aldobrandini_(oil_on_canvas)_-_(MeisterDrucke-1090650).jpg "Villa Aldobrandini by Gaspar van Wittel")
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.jpg "A View of Rome with the Bridge and Castel St. Angelo by the Tiber by Gaspar van Wittel")
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_Wittel_-_Italy_Florence_View_of_Naples_from_the_sea_detail_-_(MeisterDrucke-1103961).jpg "View of Naples from the Sea (detail) by Gaspar van Wittel")
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The Dutchman Caspar Adriaans van Wittel was a vedute painter who spent almost his entire life in Italy. Here he became very famous with his art. The veduta painting deals with the realistic reproduction of landscapes and city views. The artist takes a distant perspective, with a river, meadow or canal in the foreground and a city rising into the sky in the background. Already at a young age van Wittel was taught painting. At 22 he moves to Rome. At first he worked on construction and admired the precise inventories that architects made for new buildings. Soon afterwards he drafts his first veduta. The painting dates from 1681.
In the years that followed, Gaspar van Wittel travelled throughout Italy and painted countless views of famous cities such as Venice, Florence, Bologna and Naples. The Gotthard Pass is also found in one of his works. In 1700 he moved to Naples, married and founded his own family. His son Luigi saw the light of day. During this time, the demand for city views increases - especially among travellers and pilgrims in the Italian capital Rome. Van Wittel knew how to satisfy this demand particularly well with his small paintings. In the end there were only city views as unwieldy copper engravings to buy at the market. So Gaspar van Wittel became a Roman pioneer, because he was the first veduta painter who made the handy paintings with oil colors.
His works are in great demand; also among the Roman aristocratic family, who repeatedly commission van Wittel. For 30 years he worked highly productively. He produced a particularly large number of city views of Rome as well as some important palaces of the noble family such as the Albani, Colonna or Ottoboni. During his 30-year career, the painter Gaspar van Wittel created a large number of topographically accurate views of Rome and its surroundings. His special way of creating landscape paintings in bright colours, which are also extremely light-flooded, had a great influence on the painters of posterity. He inspired Italian painters like Panini, Giovanni Antonio Canal, Luca Carlevarijs or Guardi. With increasing age Gaspar van Wittel loses more and more of his vision. He suffers from myopia; despite wearing glasses. So his productivity also decreases more and more. He continued to live in Naples and Rome and died in 1736, while his son Luigi van Wittel became a respected architect in Naples. Today, the vedute van Wittels is mainly privately owned. Therefore, the first big exhibition about the veduta painter Gaspar van Wittel with many of his works took place for the first time in 2006 in the Museo Correr in Venice. His vedute paintings still fetch very high prices at art auctions.
The Dutchman Caspar Adriaans van Wittel was a vedute painter who spent almost his entire life in Italy. Here he became very famous with his art. The veduta painting deals with the realistic reproduction of landscapes and city views. The artist takes a distant perspective, with a river, meadow or canal in the foreground and a city rising into the sky in the background. Already at a young age van Wittel was taught painting. At 22 he moves to Rome. At first he worked on construction and admired the precise inventories that architects made for new buildings. Soon afterwards he drafts his first veduta. The painting dates from 1681.
In the years that followed, Gaspar van Wittel travelled throughout Italy and painted countless views of famous cities such as Venice, Florence, Bologna and Naples. The Gotthard Pass is also found in one of his works. In 1700 he moved to Naples, married and founded his own family. His son Luigi saw the light of day. During this time, the demand for city views increases - especially among travellers and pilgrims in the Italian capital Rome. Van Wittel knew how to satisfy this demand particularly well with his small paintings. In the end there were only city views as unwieldy copper engravings to buy at the market. So Gaspar van Wittel became a Roman pioneer, because he was the first veduta painter who made the handy paintings with oil colors.
His works are in great demand; also among the Roman aristocratic family, who repeatedly commission van Wittel. For 30 years he worked highly productively. He produced a particularly large number of city views of Rome as well as some important palaces of the noble family such as the Albani, Colonna or Ottoboni. During his 30-year career, the painter Gaspar van Wittel created a large number of topographically accurate views of Rome and its surroundings. His special way of creating landscape paintings in bright colours, which are also extremely light-flooded, had a great influence on the painters of posterity. He inspired Italian painters like Panini, Giovanni Antonio Canal, Luca Carlevarijs or Guardi. With increasing age Gaspar van Wittel loses more and more of his vision. He suffers from myopia; despite wearing glasses. So his productivity also decreases more and more. He continued to live in Naples and Rome and died in 1736, while his son Luigi van Wittel became a respected architect in Naples. Today, the vedute van Wittels is mainly privately owned. Therefore, the first big exhibition about the veduta painter Gaspar van Wittel with many of his works took place for the first time in 2006 in the Museo Correr in Venice. His vedute paintings still fetch very high prices at art auctions.
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.jpg "View of the Basilica of St. Peter in Rome (detail) by Gaspar van Wittel")
.jpg "A View of Naples by Gaspar van Wittel")
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