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Capriccio with Roman Ruins by Marco Ricci. 18th century.

Ancient Rome is a pendant to Modern Rome and catalogs the most famous antique monuments in the city. It was commissioned by the Count de Stainville, later the Duke de Choiseul, who is seen at the center with a guidebook in hand. Panini includes himself behind the chair. The gentlemen are...

A capriccio of classical ruins with three men conversing. Attributed to Giovanni Niccolò Servandoni.

The scene is animated by a number of figures, focusing on a woman in the center. She may be a sibyl or a prophet. Her character appears in many of the painter’s other idealized views, such as in the Ruins with a woman preaching (a Sibyl?) in the Museo del Prado, Madrid, which shares a similar...

A Roman capriccio with the Colosseum, Trajan's column, the Farnese Hercules, the Pyramid of Cestius and other classical buildings, with figures resting in the foreground. Giovanni Paolo Panini.

Figures near a fountain in an architectural palace by Ascanio Luciano

Came across an interesting book published by Harper & Brothers in New York in 1877. It is titled - Peru. Incidents of travel and exploration in the land of the Incas, and was authored by Ephraim George Squier. The book contains some fairly interesting images of various structures observed by the...

View of the ruins of the Roman Forum, attributed to Alessandro Salucci

From a set of six paintings made for the salle des bains of the comte d'Artois, Louis XVI's youngest brother, at the château de Bagatelle near Paris.

Robert first went to Rome in 1754, eventually spending eleven years in Italy and befriending Fragonard, who influenced his free and lively style of painting and drawing. In this panel from the Bagatelle series, Robert adapted the architecture of the Campidoglio in Rome for the palace at the...

This narrow painting and its pendant, designed by Robert as overdoors, were intended to be seen from a distance and from below. In the interest of increasing the effect of illusion, the artist placed the figures upon grassy hillocks with the ruins sunk (and in one case partially buried) behind...

The ruins in this painting are allegedly modelled after Bernini's renowned colonnade for Saint Peter's in Rome.

Almost all of the paintings from the Hôtel Rouillé de l'Étang apparently include a water feature, in this case a basin overflowing into a stream forded by a flock of sheep. To the left is a shepherd with his dog, and to the right, a boy who washes his hat at the fountain. The curving aqueduct...

This painting commissioned by a financier, Jean-François Bergeret de Frouville, was exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1775. Allegedly was produced in 1773.

This is one of a set of six paintings from a room in the Château de Bagatelle, on the outskirts of Paris which belonged to the comte d'Artois, brother of Louis XVI.

Architectural capriccio with figures by Gennaro Greco. Courtyard of a ruined palace with fountain with gushing mask.

View of the Colosseum by Giovanni Paolo Panini, 1747

Roman Capriccio. The Pantheon and Other Monuments by Giovanni Paolo Panini

Capriccio with figures among classical ruins and ships beyond by Gennaro Greco

Capriccio with figures by a great arch by Charles-Louis Clérisseau, 1786