View in the Roman Forum, early 1650s, Viviano Codazzi; Artist: Michelangelo Cerquozzi, Italian (Rome), Italian (Rome), 1603–1670, 50 1/4 x 41 3/8 in. ( x cm), Oil on canvas, Italy, 17th century, This realistic landscape is actually an architectural fantasy, or capriccio, created by Viviano Codazzi. It includes real ruins in the background, like the half-buried Arch of Septimius Severus and the Palazzo Senatorio in Rome. But the large ruin dominating the left foreground, with its row of Corinthian columns, is pure fiction. The painting was designed to lend a sense of grandeur

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