• Ubekendt, THM D 900

The Gardens of the Villa Borghese

• Type of Work / Object

  Drawing

• Location

  • Not on display

• Inventory Number

  D900

• Catalogue Number

  D900

• Catalogue Level / Collection

  Thorvaldsen's Collections > Collection of Drawings (D)

Explanation

• The Casa Cenci – or the Casa del Portinaio – was for many years mistakenly thought to have been the home of the great Renaissance artist Raphael, and so the building served as a motif for various of the painters of the time. In Thorvaldsen’s collection of paintings there is a further picture of the building by Heinrich Buntzen. Unfortunately, the building was destroyed in 1849.

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