VINCENZO MARCHI (1818-1894)
THE INTERIOR OF SAN GIOVANNI LATERANO, ROME
Signed l.l.
Watercolour with brush & wash
23.5 x 32 cm
Vincenzo Marchi was born in Rome, and first appears in local artistic records when he began to exhibit there in 1843. Marchi specialised in church and palazzo interiors, rendered in exacting detail, though he also painted numerous famous sites around the Italian capital. From his studio on Via Margutta, in the heart of Rome, Marchi catered to prosperous tourists seeking to buy souvenirs of the grand buildings they had seen and read about. Some of these, including several views of the Forum, were reproduced in engraving by Alessandro Moschetti in his work ‘Principali Monumenti di Roma’, first published in 1843.