Das Innere einer Kirche in den Pontinischen Sümpfen (Sant' Antonio Abate in Priverno)
Carl Friedrich Heinrich Werner (1808-1894)

Das Innere einer Kirche in den Pontinischen Sümpfen (Sant' Antonio Abate in Priverno),

1840
Material / Technology / Carrier
Öl auf Leinwand
Dimensions of the object
63,5 x 51,5 cm
Displayed
Not on display
Department
19. Jahrhundert
Genre
Malerei
Inventory number
11644
Acquisition
Vor 1879 durch Adolf Friedrich Graf von Schack erworben
Stock
Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen - Sammlung Schack München
Citation
Carl Friedrich Heinrich Werner, Das Innere einer Kirche in den Pontinischen Sümpfen (Sant' Antonio Abate in Priverno), 1840, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen - Sammlung Schack München, URL: https://www.sammlung.pinakothek.de/en/artwork/6kLake748V (Last updated on 28.06.2023)
The medieval church depicted here by the architectural painter Carl Werner cannot be identified. It has been left to go to ruin: rainwater has collected in a puddle and the frescoes are peeling off the walls. Since the Pontine marshes south-east of Rome were feared as a source of malaria, people left the area in increasing numbers. By about 1900 it was almost completely deserted and remained so until drained in the 1930s.

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