WITTEL, Caspar Andriaans van
(b. 1653, Amersfoort, d. 1736, Roma)

Rome: The Villa Medici and Garden

1685
Tempera on parchment, 29 x 41 cm
Galleria Palatina (Palazzo Pitti), Florence

Romans enjoy the shady gardens of the Villa Medici, acquired by then-Cardinal later Grand Duke, Ferdinando I de' Medici some one hundred years before the Italianized Van Wittel painted this.