Capriccio with ruins and figures, oil painting on canvas, early 18th century

A large landscape with ruins from the year 1700. Capriccio with ruins and figures, oil painting on canvas, from the early 18th century, in good condition.

Capriccio is a term coined at the end of the Renaissance and has several meanings with one common point. Capriccio was a movement of the soul, more precisely a stimulation of the imagination, which gave rise to various imaginations. From a pictorial point of view, there is no doubt that the Capriccio genre developed in the Eternal City in the first decades of the 17th century and found inspiration in the ruins of the classical era. 

The subject canvas is indeed ruined, as the landscape plays a secondary role in the composition. The unidentified ruins here have a suggestive matrix, meaning they use their emotional potential to outline imaginary landscapes. The scene is symbolically observed by a Roman knight, with two beggars sitting on the rubble, as if to emphasize the fall of the classical world. 

The painting has been lined and restored to a new frame; it has been restored and features several painting additions. The frame is French, in a 19th-century tablet. 

The painting is accompanied by a certificate of market approval.

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