| This is one of the
charming fresco paintings that decorate the vestibule of our Palazzo Cenci
studio, a scene of the Tiber River before the modern embankments were built.
It is reminiscent of the picturesque vedute or views of old Rome and
other Italian cities painted and engraved by Canaletto, Pannini and Piranesi
during the Rococo period of the eighteenth century.
However, our Rome Program director, Patricia Osmond, tells me that these frescos are faux Rococo, painted sometime in the early twentieth century when the palazzo was renovated. In fact, they remind me of the painted decorations we see on the walls of older Italian restaurants in America, where so many of us received our earliest impressions of the Italian landscape.
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