About this artwork
Ruin of an Amphitheater at Pouzzoles (Kingdom of Naples) was made after a lost 1845 sketch by the painter and engraver Alexandre Calame. Created during the middle of Calame’s trip to Italy, this image depicts a plainly dressed hermit standing amidst a large ruin and quietly reading a book, perhaps the Bible. Calame, a Calvinist, employed the grandiose ruins of the amphitheater as an evocation of God’s power over man.
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Prints and Drawings
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Artist
- Alexandre Calame
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Title
- Ruin of an Amphitheatre at Pouzzoles (Kingdom of Naples), plate 9 from Oeuvres de A. Calame
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Place
- Switzerland (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- Published 1851
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Medium
- Lithograph on buff chine collé, laid down on off-white wove paper
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Dimensions
- Image: 28.7 × 19.3 cm (11 5/16 × 7 5/8 in.); Sheet: 40.6 × 29 cm (16 × 11 7/16 in.)
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Credit Line
- The Charles Deering Collection
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Reference Number
- Obj: 132864
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IIIF Manifest
- https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/132864/manifest.json