Architectural capriccio
Please sign in so that we can notify you about a reply
This painting is an example of an eighteenth-century "architectural capriccio with herds", a landscape probably the fruit of the imagination, freely conceived by the painter's imagination, where buildings were inserted for the most part invented or actually existed but detached from their context of origin This type of painting originates in the late seventeenth century, with the aim of stimulating the imagination through the creation of timeless views, far from everyday reality. Fantastic, wide-ranging, and with minute figures and important ruins that dominate the scenes, all painted in a theatrical way, with the architectures on the sides to form the scenic backdrops that guide the perspective ve