Lot Essay
When offered in these Rooms in 1992, Professor Ferdinando Arisi suggested, on the basis of photographs, the possible intervention of a collaborator in the left part of the picture, i.e. the bas-reliefs, the statue and the vegetation.
We are grateful to Professor David Marshall for also commenting on the painting on the basis of photographs, pointing out that it appears to have been painted in Panini's workshop, 'in a real sense', with either close supervision by him and possibly some partecipation. Professor Marshall adds that the composition clearly derives from a prototype that Panini must have kept in his workshop, and that the subject is the Temple of Antoninus and Faustina in the Forum, with an unusual treatment of the superstructure.
We are grateful to Professor David Marshall for also commenting on the painting on the basis of photographs, pointing out that it appears to have been painted in Panini's workshop, 'in a real sense', with either close supervision by him and possibly some partecipation. Professor Marshall adds that the composition clearly derives from a prototype that Panini must have kept in his workshop, and that the subject is the Temple of Antoninus and Faustina in the Forum, with an unusual treatment of the superstructure.