Truly incredible, I say.

Halladay · 2 years

The picture is titled Modern Rome, painted by Giovanni Paolo Panini, 1757.

EDIT: I was mistaken. The painting is indeed a Panini, but it is a piece done two years later by him titled, Gallery of Views of Modern Rome. The similarities between the two pieces are incredible. Even more amazing that Panini did a series of these highly detailed works!

Correct Source

Thanks to BradburyMan for pointing that out.

octaviusromulus · 2 years

Now this will REALLY blow your mind: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=piazza+di+popolo,+rome,+italy&sll=37.788624,-122.40366&sspn=0.03127,0.067806&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Piazza+del+Popolo,+00187+Roma,+Lazio,+Italy&ll=41.911087,12.476104&spn=0.007761,0.016952&z=16&layer=c&cbll=41.911087,12.476104&panoid=WpXuDy1KyRbSu-7zO8WFkQ&cbp=12,161.14,,1,-8.1

aolley · 2 years

It is, but this picture is also very large

deodrus · 2 years

I came to the comments looking for a higher-res version. 100 comments and none so far, I'm disappointed.

Here's a higher res version.

and here is a gallery of Giovanni Paolo Panini's works.

EDIT: couldn't find a bigger picture than that. Anyone have more luck?

joelfriesen · 2 years

You can't take photos in here sir. Please put the camera away. Thank you

erikANGRY · 2 years

http://i.imgur.com/KIdJu.jpg

minimini · 2 years

Enhance

funkboy27 · 2 years

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abudhu · 2 years

Yo Dawg...?

arizonaa · 2 years

This guy would have a pretty epic deviant art account if he were alive now

xyroclast · 2 years

Ah, one of Yough Dahg's greatest works!

DrunkenRamblings · 2 years

Why was I looking for Waldo in there?

mulattolibido · 2 years

I've got an Art History class this semester, and I'm blown away by the depth of knowledge in some of these extremely old paintings. Eh... as unfair as it is to now bring up DaVinci, read about his painting "The Last Supper" if you can. I haven't been able to find a place online that explained it as wonderfully as my teacher, but each person is an astrological symbol. Their hands and body parts even represent old ways of understanding the symbols. This comment might be a little useless, but old art is the shit.

booleanillogic · 2 years

Think of the foreshortening involved in painting all the slightly-sideways-facing paintings within the larger painting!

Backstop · 2 years

Did you find this picture after reading the article on Cracked about 5 things not found in the Bible and then following the link to 7 Famous Works of Art with Bizarre Mistakes you can't unsee??

bloody_hell · 2 years

We have to go deeper...

syazi · 2 years

Pretty amazing, but also very arrogant. Artists would do works like this sometimes, containing the works of other artists within them, to prove their superior skill. Although, I don't know who the original artists were in this work.

leondz · 2 years

It's detailed, I'll give you that.. wouldn't really call it an "incredible piece of art", though.

TheBluePanda · 2 years

http://imgur.com/xKtaI.jpg

human1000 · 2 years

WE NEED TO GO DEEPER

cbfw86 · 2 years

I don't get it. Spare me the whooshes. Just point me in the direction of understanding.

alexgdorman · 2 years

Are really old paintings like this public domain, or have people manage to secure right to them?

Thanks for the downvotes, assholes. That'll teach me to ask legitimate questions.

voiceinthedesert · 2 years

I'll take the art inside that art over modern "art" any day.

moviedude26 · 2 years

wow what is that piece?

KhanTengri · 2 years

Well, he probably spent a lot of time in Rome painting the sights... might as well have somewhere to put them all...

I mean... yo dawg... I hear you like paintings of rome.

[deleted] · 2 years

It's from a stunning series of works. One of the similar pieces, Picture Gallery with Views of Modern Rome is hanging in the MFA here in Boston, and it's incredible in it's full sized splendor. If you're interested in the pieces, they were commissioned by a french duke to commemorate his stay in Rome as the french ambassador to the vatican. That's the duke depicted in the middle there. The sculptures around him are from Michelangelo and Bernini, and all of the paintings are also Panini's paintings of some Roman landmarks including St.Peters Square, Trevi Fountain, and the Spanish Steps.

Here's a picture of the one in the MFA

PlatinumMember · 2 years

Higher res version (2500 x 1670)

cherif84 · 2 years

how many megapixels is that painting ffs???

44r0n123 · 2 years

Enhance..zoom...enhance it once more....use the filter to zoom in again...enhance once more

CrapNeck5000 · 2 years

If anyone would like to see this AWESOME painting in person, you can find it at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.

This is my favorite piece there.

SKRules · 2 years

Picture gallery with views of modern Rome by Giovanni Paolo Panini says Wikipedia.

Truly a remarkable piece. It seems to have been restored since Wikipedia's image or it though.

gazdinf · 2 years

The square in the final zoom is called Piazza del Popolo. One of the twin churches hides a painting that is the starting point of the movie 'Da Vinci code'

noidddd · 2 years

that is ridiculous!

evilgeologist · 2 years

So it has been like 10 years since I took an art history class... but did they make these as a way to sell art, or at least was there a class of paintings that were like traveling catalogs where they would use it to sell the paintings depicted within? For some reason I remember something like that but I may be just making it up... I might have to go pull out my copy of Gardner's Art Through the Ages and find out.

zaulus · 2 years

For a while, the Georgia Flag was like that.

3HourLineForSanta · 2 years

Whoa. I just saw this when I was in Paris and had the same reaction. Get out of my head Reddit!

adamwho · 2 years

It is also a really big painting too.

pSKY11 · 2 years

Thats my favourite painting.

[deleted] · 2 years

"Abbiamo bisogno di andare più in profondità."

--Giovanni Paolo Panini, 1757

ethics · 2 years

This is how the Vatican ruined art for me. You go there once, you look at all the art that was made back in the day and it makes today's "art" kinda bland.

It's like swimming in Barbados and then coming back home and looking at Jones beach.

fortfive · 2 years

Yall should read Bluebeard (by Vonnegut).

Duh_Ambalamps · 2 years

the last one looks like to boobs and a peepee.

Yawnn · 2 years

I know this is an amazing piece of artwork, but all I could imagine was Cameron staring at the child.

Side note, is he projecting himself as the child?

cheshiregrins · 2 years

Jan Van Eyck was also good at that whole 'crazy detail' thing

look at this then this

dmendel · 2 years

this makes me realized how truely uncreative i am. props to Panini

SarcasmOrgasm · 2 years

Can we get a "yo dawg" version of this?

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