Paesaggio romano con temporale (English: Roman landscape with thunderstorm) was a 18th century painting by Flemish landscape painter Jan Frans van Bloemen who was active in Rome at the time of the painting's creation. While van Bloemen painted the landscape, the figures depicted in Paesaggio romano con temporale were the work of Italian artist Placido Costanzi.
It was owned by the Wayne family for centuries and displayed at their ancestral home in Gotham City, the Wayne Manor. The painting was destroyed along with all of Wayne Manor when the building was blown up by Jeremiah Valeska during the No Man's Land crisis.
History[]
The painting was in the possession of the Wayne family for centuries. It was already owned by the Waynes when the Dumas family was still one of the Five Families that once ruled Gotham's high society.[1]
Almost 200 years later, van Bloemen's Paesaggio romano con temporale was still owned by the Wayne family and displayed at the study room of Wayne Manor.[2][3] It was the second-largest painting in the study.[4][5]
After Bruce Wayne was poisoned by Ivy Pepper, Paesaggio romano con temporale also appeared in Bruce's hallucination when he was imagining a party at Wayne Manor that people like Penguin and Lee Thompkins were attending.[6]
Like all the other paintings and valuable art owned by the Wayne family, Paesaggio romano con temporale was destroyed when Wayne Manor was blown up by Jeremiah Valeska during the No Man's Land crisis. Valeska used a number of explosives positioned all over the house to utterly destroy Wayne Manor. The detonations caused the entire building to collapse in an inferno of flames, leaving behind nothing but ruins.[7]
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Notes[]
- Paesaggio romano con temporale is a real oil on canvas painting by Flemish landscape painter Jan Frans van Bloemen (1662-1749), who became known for his various vedute of the Roman countryside, earning him the nickname "Orizzonte". Born in Antwerp, van Bloemen moved to Rome as a young man, where he would continue living and working for the rest of his life until his death in 1749. He often worked together with other artists like Placido Costanzi (1702–1759), whom he employed to paint the figures in the paintings, while van Bloemen himself exclusively painted the landscapes. This therefore made many of van Bloemen's paintings joint works.
- In real life, the painting is currently part of the collection at the Galleria Sabauda, Torino, where it is exhibited under the Italian name Paesaggio romano con temporale. The painting used for the filming of Gotham was obviously just a reproduction of the original.
- The painting has sometimes also been referred to as Hurricane in the Roman countryside by some sources, which however is not a precise translation of the original Italian title.
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