Capriccio with classical ruins and buildings

Canaletto

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Work Overview

Capriccio with Classical Ruins and Buildings
Canaletto
Date: c.1751
Style: Rococo
Genre: capriccio
Oil on canvas
62 x 74 cm
Location: Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan, Italy


The painting shows a typically inventive view that highlights a taste for the depiction of ruins by mingling classical and Christian buildings. The painting met with a certain success and a number of copies were made.