Imaginary View Of Ancient Ruins, Entourage Of Panini, Italy Late 18th Century

Imaginary view of ancient ruins, oil on canvas dimensions 48 cm x 68 cm, with its Louis XVI frame in carved and gilded wood, 58 cm x 78 cm, period late 18th century, entourage of Panini. Initiated at the time of the Renaissance, the painting of ancient ruins has always fascinated many painters. The ruin is ambivalent, it is both the victim of destructive time and the resistance to time, it is partly for this reason that we are always in admiration before the strange beauty that it gives off.