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Mountain Landscape with Ruins
Also titled Bergachtig landschap met ruïne
Paulus Willemsz. van Vianen (Utrecht, ca. –ca.)
1598 - 1608
- Medium
- paper, ink
- Classification
- drawing
- Dimensions
- height 191 mm x width 279 mm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Kids profiles and older: it shows nature, places, still life or a children's book. How works are placed
About this work
This is clearly an imaginary scene: the artist has situated the Temple of Minerva Medica in a ghostly and misty mountain landscape, while in reality it is located in Rome. Paulus van Vianen based the rendering of the ancient temple on a print, for he did not know the building first-hand. He never went to Rome.
