Tivoli and Macena's Villa
Medium
Graphic Arts-Print
Classification
Graphic Arts-Print
Department
Smithsonian Collection
Museum
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Credit
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase
Accession Number
1979.102.1
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Art Historical Context
George Loring Brown, a prominent 19th-century American landscape painter, the timeless beauty of Italy's Tivoli region in his 1853 *Tivoli and Mac's Villa*. This graphic arts print depicts the lush, romantic scenery around Tivoli, near Rome, featuring cascading water, a distant castle, and grazing cattle. Tivoli was a favored stop on the Grand Tour for European travelers, renowned for its ancient Roman villas like that of the patron Gaius Maecenas,oking the grandeur of classical antiquity amid natural splendor. As a print medium, Brown's work democratized access to these exotic vistas, allowi...
About the Artist
George Loring Brown
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