Gustav Friedrich Hetsch. A View in San Lorenzo Fuori le Mura, Rome. 1815–1825. Germany. Pen and brown ink and brush and various brown washes on ivory wove paper, edge-mounted to an ivory laid paper inlay Hetsch was an influential Danish-German architect and teacher, known for the meticulous technique andthe Romantic classicism of his drawings. In 1812 he went to Rome and in 1815 to Copenhagen. A slightly later painting of the same view by the Danish artist Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg of 1824 hangs in gallery 221. This sheet is interesting for its coded commentary the processing clerics and
Gustav Friedrich Hetsch. A View in San Lorenzo Fuori le Mura, Rome. 1815–1825. Germany. Pen and brown ink and brush and various brown washes on ivory wove paper, edge-mounted to an ivory laid paper inlay Hetsch was an influential Danish-German architect and teacher, known for the meticulous technique andthe Romantic classicism of his drawings. In 1812 he went to Rome and in 1815 to Copenhagen. A slightly later painting of the same view by the Danish artist Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg of 1824 hangs in gallery 221. This sheet is interesting for its coded commentary the processing clerics and the women kneeling in prayer before a reliquary altar model religious devotion, but the presence of two beggars on the steps of the church poignantly underscores more earthly concerns.
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