Senate House, Campidoglio
Rudolph Ruzicka American, born Czechoslovakia
Related author Fanny Davenport Rogers MacVeagh American
Not on view
This image shows the Senate Building on Rome's Campidoglio. The fountain below its steps ceners on a statue of Rome flanked by river gods.This is a proof of one of 43 wood engravings that Ruzicka made to illustrate "Fountains of Papal Rome," 1915 where the image appears on page 43. Other prints describing sculptural fountains on or near the site are ("View of the Piazza del Campidoglio," MMA proof, 18.25.10, "Marforio" (MMA proof, 18.25.50), and "Lion attacking a Horse" (MMA proof, 18.25.49).
Ruzicka went to Rome in 1913 with the manuscript of Mrs. Charles MacVeagh's "Fountains of Papal Rome" in hand as a guide. When published by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York in 1915 the book contained fourteen full-page images and twenty-nine page headings and vignettes. The artist later described the book as a "quite remarkable work...still the most authoritative book there is on the subject in the English language."
