# Mountain Landscape with Ruins

- By: Paulus Willemsz. van Vianen (Utrecht, ca. –ca.)
- Date: 1598 - 1608
- Medium: paper, ink
- Classification: drawing
- Dimensions: height 191 mm x width 279 mm
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/RP-T-1962-74--c78dfb63134728faf0296fd2df36023f)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://iiif.micr.io/Mmqdc/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Kids profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.