Mountain Landscape with Ruins, Paulus Willemsz. van Vianen, 1598 - 1608

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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.