Our splendid view can be ascribed with certainty to the Roman-born vedutista Antonio Senape.

The precise style and the meticulous details as well as the handwriting of the inscription on the center of sheet lead back to other works by Senape, although his Roman views are very rare.

The chosen viewpoint of the artist is an imaginary terrace of the Pincio Gardens (the artist mention Trinità dei Monti, is evidently to indicate the near neighborhood).

On the left of the composition, it can be seen the convent and the church of the Trinità dei Monti with its twin bell towers and the Sallustian obelisk right in front of it. Further on, one can distinguish the Quirinal Palace with the Torrino (The Tower) and, closer, the Borromini’s bell tower of Sant’ Andrea delle Fratte with the Torre delle Milizie (Tower of the Militia) immediately behind it.

Next to the viewer are the houses of the city centre with the dome of Sant'Agnese in Agone in the distance and the Antonine column.

A beautiful olla (terracotta vase) closes the composition on the balustrade of the terrace.

The figure of Antonio Senape (Rome, 1788- Naples, 1850 circa) ranks among the most prolific Italian Vedutisti of the first half of the 19th century. However, the considerable quantity of drawings produced by the artist is matched by the almost total lack of information on his life: his activity is not mentioned in biographical repertories of the 19th century. His date of birth, 1788, is known from a recently rediscovered document dated 1815, in which Senape himself declares that he is ‘27 years old’ and lives in Rome at no. 50 Via Gregoriana in Rome (archives of the Vicariate of Rome of Sant'Andrea delle Fratte, Stati d'Anime 1815 f.n.n.). ‘Roman’, in fact, was declared in the margin of several of his drawings.

It is probable that after 1815 Senape left his hometown to settle in southern Italy; while his views of Rome are very rare, the artist's entire production is centered on images of the South.

He settled in Naples where he devoted himself to a production of views ‘from life’, loose sheets, all done in pen and ink, thus not colored.

These pictures of well-known places were collected in souvenir albums for travelers, especially. English travelers. The city that offered him ever-changing views became his second home.

He lived until almost the middle of the 19th century, documented by his numerous views depicting buildings constructed in that period.