# Roman Ruins with Figures

- By: Giovanni Paolo Panini (Italian, 1691 - 1765)
- Date: ca. 1745
- Medium: Graphite, brush and watercolor on white paper
- Classification: Sculpture
- Dimensions: H x W: 38.3 × 27 cm (15 1/16 × 10 5/8 in.)
- Culture: Italy
- Credit line: Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
- Museum: [Smithsonian Institution](https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/view/objects/asitem/id/62366)
- Rights: [CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/170ac7ef7666c1e3dcd62b2abc116509.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Vertical rectangle. Unfinished composition showing a ruined vaulted structure before which is a relief showing three standing figures. At left, sculptures of the Belvedere Torso \[Vatican Museum\] and the Borghese Warrior \[Louvre\]. Various figures in conversation.