Capriccio with the Campidoglio

Capriccio with the Campidoglio is a c. 1742 oil-on-canvas painting by the Italian artist Bernardo Bellotto. It was acquired by count Stefano Sanvitale di Parma in 1835 and then exhibited in the Galleria nazionale di Parma, where it now hangs alongside another painting originally produced as its pendant.

The work is an architectural capriccio, with fictive architecture in the foreground and elements of real architecture from Rome such as the 'cordonata capitolina', the colossal statue of Castor, the Basilica di Santa Maria in Aracoeli, the Palazzo Nuovo and part of the Palazzo Senatorio.