View of the Piazza di Spagna

This is a semi-imaginary view of the Piazza di Spagna in Rome, with the figure of Erasmus on a balcony taking notes. His celebrated book The Praise of Folly lies on the balustrade. 

I say 'semi-imaginary' because part of the view is based on a painting by Giovanni Panini, a well-known eighteenth-century Italian painter who, in this painting, is given credit above the entrance to the pink building.

The medium is acrylic, painted on 10 mm MDF board primed with acrylic primer and acrylic gesso. The size is 97x60 cm, which, as art connoisseurs will know, is the rectangle which can be divided into a square and a rectangle, which can itself be divided into a square and a rectangle and so on ad infinitum. Why would anyone want to do such a thing? The answer to this question may involve you in long and painstaking though not necessarily unrewarding study. 

The characters in the piazza are imaginary, though you may recognise some from the Commedia dell Arte, others from the engravings of Jacques Callot and still others from the engravings of Rembrandt.