Nowhere does the landscape of imagination comes into play so brilliantly as in the series of allegorical tombs commemorating the heroes of modern English history that were commissioned in the 1720s from a variety of Venetian and Bolognese painters by the playwright and one-time theatre manager Owen McSwine.
In Sebastiano and Marco Ricci's "Memorial" (Tomba allegorica) to Admiral Sir Clowdisley Chovell, architecture and landscape conspire to create a sublime poetic vision.
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