Caspar van Wittel Naples – Crypta Neapolitana before 1736 oil on canvas private collection |
Caspar van Wittel Naples – The Arsenal and Castello Nuovo 1703 oil on canvas National Maritime Museum, Greenwich |
Caspar van Wittel Naples – View from Pizzofalcone ca. 1701 oil on canvas Banco Commerciale Italiana, Naples |
Caspar van Wittel Rome – Castel Sant' Angelo ca. 1690-1710 tempera on vellum Pinacoteca Capitolina, Rome |
Caspar van Wittel Rome – Castel Sant' Angelo from Prati di Castello ca. 1690-1710 tempera on vellum Pinacoteca Capitolina, Rome |
Caspar van Wittel Rome – Chiesa dei Santi Marcellino e Pietro al Laterano before 1736 oil on canvas private collection |
Caspar van Wittel Rome – Colosseum 1707 oil on canvas private collection |
Caspar van Wittel Rome – Piazza del Popolo 1718 oil on canvas Banco Commerciale Italiana, Naples |
Caspar van Wittel Rome – Piazza Navona 1699 oil on canvas Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid |
Caspar van Wittel Rome – Piazza San Pietro ca. 1700-1710 oil on canvas Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
Caspar van Wittel Rome – View of the Tiber 1685 oil on canvas Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
workshop of Caspar van Wittel Rome – Ponte Rotto on the Tiber ca. 1700 oil on canvas Museo di Roma a Palazzo Braschi |
Caspar van Wittel Tivoli – Temple of Vesta before 1736 oil on canvas private collection |
Caspar van Wittel Venice – Bacino San Marco 1697 oil on canvas Museo del Prado, Madrid |
Caspar van Wittel Verona – View of the Adige ca. 1710-20 oil on copper private collection |
"Caspar van Wittel was a Dutch painter and draughtsman, trained in his hometown of Amersfoort, Netherlands in the workshop of the painter Matthias Withoos. He followed his master's footsteps when he moved to Rome around 1675, where he [van Wittel] became known as Vanvitelli. He began painting topographical views in the 1680s, and by the 1690s had established a clear style, distinctive for its realism and subject matter. While his predecessors in this genre had focused mainly on the ruins, ancient monuments and religious sites around Rome, van Wittel sought to chronicle the newer parts of the city, and so was a pioneer in the visual documentation of modern Rome."
– from a biographical sketch published by Brown University, The Theater that was Rome