1810
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
View of San Vitale, Rome is a 1810 by Joseph Anton Koch, a Romanticism work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
This print shows a quiet hillside scene near Rome. A woman and child walk along a path lined with bushes and rocks, while two men stand nearby. Behind them, old buildings sit among trees, with a tower and church steeple rising in the distance. The artist added tiny details like the woman’s loose dress and the men’s relaxed stances. The text at the bottom names the spot: *Vicino a S. Vitale in Roma*—meaning “near San Vitale in Rome.” Look up Joseph Anton Koch next to see how he painted real places with emotional depth.
Joseph Anton Koch (27 July 1768 – 12 January 1839) was an Austrian painter of Neoclassicism and later the German Romantic movement; he is perhaps the most significant neoclassical landscape painter.
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