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Della Bella, Stefano
Campo Vaccino (#2 in series of 13 from “Landscape and Ruins of Rome”) Campo Vaccino (no 2 de 13, de la série Paysage et ruines de Rome)
1646 1646

Stefano della Bella, one of the great etchers of the early modern era, here captures a scene from contemporary urban life. The Campo Vaccino (Cow’s Pasture), the site of a weekly cattle market, bustles with activity in the centre of seventeenth-century Rome. Only in the nineteenth century would the area be fully excavated to reveal the Roman Forum. Della Bella’s precise control of the etched line allows him to convey great spatial depth, and the vast pasture is populated with numerous figures to suggest a thriving domestic economy.

Della Bella, Stefano
Florence, Italy 1610-Florence, Italy 1664 Florence, Italy 1610-Florence, Italy 1664
Campo Vaccino (#2 in series of 13 from “Landscape and Ruins of Rome”) Campo Vaccino (no 2 de 13, de la série Paysage et ruines de Rome)
1646 1646
Etching on paper, state 5 Eau-forte, 5e état
height / width: 13.70 x 13.70 cm; 5.39 x 5.39 in.
Gift from the estate of Mabel E. Segsworth, through the Queen's University Art Foundation, 1944 Don de la succession de Mabel E. Segsworth, par l’intermédiaire de la Fondation pour les arts de l’Université Queen’s, 1944
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