"The Castel Sant'Angelo from the South" by Caspar van Wittel, from the 1690s
Caspar Andriaans van Wittel (b. 1653, Amersfoort, d. 1736, Rome) was a Dutch landscape painter. Van Wittel relocated to Rome with his family ca. 1675 and made his career there. His son italianized the family name as Vanvitelli. Centuries: 16th century - 17th century - 18th century Decades: 1640s 1650s 1660s 1670s 1680s - 1690s - 1700s 1710s 1720s 1730s 1740s Years: 1690 1691 1692 1693 1694 1695 1696 1697 1698 1699 Events and Trends World Leaders King Christian V of Denmark (1670 - 1699). ... Events February 2 - New Amsterdam (later renamed New York City) is incorporated. ... Amersfoort is also a town in South Africa. ... Events January 26 - Stanislaus I of Poland abdicates his throne. ... City motto: Senatus Populusque Romanus – SPQR (The Senate and the People of Rome) Founded 21 April 753 BC mythical, 1st millennium BC Region Latium Mayor Walter Veltroni (Democratici di Sinistra) Area - City Proper 1290 km² Population - City (2004) - Metropolitan - Density (city proper) 2,546,807 almost 4,000,000 1... Events January 5 - The Battle of Turckeim August 10 - Building of the Royal Greenwich Observatory began November 11 - Guru Gobind Singh becomes the Tenth Guru of the Sikhs. ... Luigi Vanvitelli (Naples, May 12, 1700 - Caserta, March 1, 1773), an engineer as well as the most prominent 18th-century Italian architect, practiced a sober classicizing academic Late Baroque style that made an easy transition to Neoclassicism. ...
A near contemporary report mentions that vanWittel is said to have sent drawings from Rome to his former teacher, Matthias Withoos, and that these may have been in wider circulation in the Netherlands prior to the artist himself realising them in paint or print.
VanWittel's Piazza Navona was engraved by Gommarus Wouters and published in Rome as early as 1693.
It is dated 1699, the year in which vanWittel is said to have gone to Naples at the invitation of the Spanish viceroy, the Duke of Medinaceli, for two years.
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