The New Rome. Castel Sant'Angelo

The new Rome. Castel Sant'Angelo (Russian: "Новый Рим. Замок святого Ангела") is part of a series of paintings painted by Sylvester Shchedrin in the early Roman period (1821–1825).

The painting is made from the bank of a curve of the Tiber River, near the house where the painter lived.

The series of paintings of this period on Rome, represents an important stage in the work of Shchedrin. In the foreground he creates a scene with fishing boats, fishermen, houses, and he places the elements of the old city of Rome (Castel Sant'Angelo and St. Peter's Basilica in the distance), as a backdrop, beyond the Pontus Sant'Angelo. This painting is a fine example of the artist's work as a painter on the motif, outdoors.

According to a contemporary, the artist has done it eight times ... and each time by modifying

tones and light.

The Tiber makes it possible to bring together the elements of the table scattered between different subjects. At the bottom the "old Rome" and its palaces, in front of the scene the "new Rome" with its poor houses of Trastevere, one of the Rioni of Rome. He thus points out that, side by side, live two cities: the "Eternal City" and the "Temporal City". His representation of simple Roman figures on the banks of the river gives a lively and authentic character to the whole.

During his stay in Italy, Sylvestre Chtchedrine joined the artist group of the Pausilippe school, a group of landscape painters favoring the tradition of vedutism, a perspective representation of urban landscapes.