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Muleteers beside an Italian Ruin  1650

by Jan Asselijn

Asselijn had spent time in Rome, where he recorded his impressions in drawings. Once back in Amsterdam, [br]he painted this view of a huge aqueduct. This monument to the faded glory of ancient Rome now shelters simple country folk and their herds. In the sunlight beneath one arch, a traveller is relieving himself, just like the urinating donkey in the foreground that part...
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Courtesy of Rijksmuseum