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This panoramic view of Rome from the Palatine Hill, painted by Julius Zielke, a German-born painter trained in Düsseldorf, was presumably made after the artist had established his chief residence in Italy in 1852.
The present view presents some of the city’s most important and celebrated landmarks. Indeed, the Coliseum and Forum, along with the Basilica di Santa Francesca Romana, are clearly visible to the right of the painting. The fashion for painting, and collecting, views of Rome and other Italian cities was which had its precedence in the seventeenth century. As a destination for the aristocracy undertaking the Grand Tour in the eighteenth century, the beauty and heritage of the Italian peninsula grasped the attention of wealthy travelers from across Europe; a fascination which continued well into the 1800s. This beautiful view certainly contributes to and continues this tradition.
The painting, according to a label on the reverse, was given to the Crown Princess Victoria of Prussia by her parents-in-law, King Wilhelm I and Queen Augusta, as a Christmas present in 1863. The beloved eldest daughter of Queen Victoria, Princess ‘Vicky’ had married Frederick Willem of Prussia in 1858. The couple had met at the opening of the Great Exhibition in 1851 and announced their engagement a year later at Balmoral. While a love match, the marriage also helped to strengthen the dynastic ties between England and Germany. The Princess was evidently fond of Rome. In a letter, written to her mother on 11 January 1889, one of more than 7,000 the two wrote to each other over nearly 45 years of Princess Victoria’s marriage, she declared the city ‘splendid in its stately beauty’ (Sir F. Ponsonby (ed.), Letters of the Empress Frederick, London, 1928, p. 399.). After the death of Wilhelm I in 1888, Friedrich and Victoria became the Emperor and Empress of Germany.
The present view presents some of the city’s most important and celebrated landmarks. Indeed, the Coliseum and Forum, along with the Basilica di Santa Francesca Romana, are clearly visible to the right of the painting. The fashion for painting, and collecting, views of Rome and other Italian cities was which had its precedence in the seventeenth century. As a destination for the aristocracy undertaking the Grand Tour in the eighteenth century, the beauty and heritage of the Italian peninsula grasped the attention of wealthy travelers from across Europe; a fascination which continued well into the 1800s. This beautiful view certainly contributes to and continues this tradition.
The painting, according to a label on the reverse, was given to the Crown Princess Victoria of Prussia by her parents-in-law, King Wilhelm I and Queen Augusta, as a Christmas present in 1863. The beloved eldest daughter of Queen Victoria, Princess ‘Vicky’ had married Frederick Willem of Prussia in 1858. The couple had met at the opening of the Great Exhibition in 1851 and announced their engagement a year later at Balmoral. While a love match, the marriage also helped to strengthen the dynastic ties between England and Germany. The Princess was evidently fond of Rome. In a letter, written to her mother on 11 January 1889, one of more than 7,000 the two wrote to each other over nearly 45 years of Princess Victoria’s marriage, she declared the city ‘splendid in its stately beauty’ (Sir F. Ponsonby (ed.), Letters of the Empress Frederick, London, 1928, p. 399.). After the death of Wilhelm I in 1888, Friedrich and Victoria became the Emperor and Empress of Germany.