The painting "View from Monte di Giustizia to Villa Montalto Negroni in Rome" from 1785 is at the center of the new exhibition. The beautiful painting by Johann August Nahl the younger is a recent donation from the Ike und Berthold Roland-Stiftung foundation in Mannheim. In the exhibition "The sky above Rome" it is accompanied by a selection of works from the museum's collection, including drawings by the brothers Jakob Philipp and Johann Gottlieb Hackers, Joseph Anton cook and Franz Kobell which vary the theme of painting the real landscape and the ideal landscape.
Almost all the works on display are by Goethe's friends or contemporaries, such as the drawing of „Temple of Saturnby Johann Georg Schutz, Goethe's roommate at the Corso. Another highlight is the painting „View of Rocca di Sangallo in Civita Castellana“. Only recently could it be attributed to Jakob Wilhelm Mecha.
The oils and drawings are accompanied by texts that introduce the landscape around 1800. With the respective biographies, the exhibition thus narrates the world of German landscapers present in Rome, presenting some of the most significant names of that period.
The title of the review was born from a free association and represents a tribute to the Roman sky, defined by the writer Raffaele La Capria with these words: "The blue sky, exact and clear light of Rome". Because it is precisely that particular light that has always inspired the artists of this city.
Goethe's house, Via del Corso 18 |00186 Rome
The exhibition is open from 3.12.2014 to 1.2.2015
10.00 – 18.00. closed on Mondays
Attachments: text tables exhibition.pdf
