11/17/2018 Views of the Colosseum from the North 1: Luigi Rossini’s Panorama | Villa Castagna https://villacastagnadaylesford.com.au/2018/11/12/views-of-the-colosseum-from-the-north-1-luigi-rossinis-panorama/ 1/3 Fig. 1. Luigi Rossini, Panorama of Rome from the campanile of S. Maria Nova, 1828. Fig. 2. The first and third plates of Rossini’s panorama joined. Fig. 3. Nolli mp, 1745, for Rossini panorama Fig. 4. S. Mariadella Neve, formerly SS. Andrea Apostolo e Bernardino. Fig. 5. View from SS. Andrea e Bernardino (at right) down the Viadel Colosseo to the Colosseum. Fig. 6. Detail of Rossins’s first and third plates joined, labelled. Views of the Colosseum from the North 1: Luigi Rossini’s Panorama Posted on November 12, 2018 This series of posts discusses the topography of eighteenth and nineteenth-century views of the Colosseum seem from the north. By looking at the sightlines of these views, plotted on Nolli’s 1748 map of Rome, the first comprehensive accurately surveyed map of the city, it is possible to work out where these views were made from when they are based on observation of the site. This area north of the Colosseum is not often depicted in topographical views. The most useful is a set of three etchings made by Luigi Rossini in 1828 from the campanile of S. Maria Nova (Fig. 1, Fig. 3 point A3). These join to make a panorama, so that the left side of the first plate can be joined to the right side of the last (Fig. 2). What we see here can be correlated with the Nolli map (Fig. 3). This shows a road leading north from the Colosseum (today Via del Colosseo) to a fork in the road at the church of SS. Andrea Apostolo e Bernardino dei Rigattieri, now S. Maria della Neve (Fig. 4). The area around this church is little changed, as a view from beside the church to the Colosseum shows (Fig. 5). To the north-east S. Francesca di Paola, S. Pietro in Vincoli, and the Baths of Titus. All of these are visible in Rossini’s etchings (Fig. 6). However, moving in more closely to the area closer to the Colosseum (Fig. 7) things are much changed because of the construction of the Via dei Fori Imperiali, the line of which can be superimposed on the Nolli map by superimposing a modern cartographic image such as Google maps. Rossini looks down onto the platform of the Villa Castagna Gardens, architecture, sculpture and fabriques, especially of the baroque kind. By David R. Marshall of Montacute Pavilion, Daylesford: the ultimate romantic getaway. https://www.dayget.com.au/montacute- pavilion-and-gardens