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Mountain Landscape with Ruins  1598

by Paulus Willemsz. van Vianen

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.
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Courtesy of Rijksmuseum