Ancient Monuments

Ancient Monuments is an original painting realized by Vinzenz Fischer in the early 19th century.

Mixed colored oil painting on canvas.

This beautiful artwork represents an Italian landscape with classical monuments in ruins, and two peasants standing by them. The atmosphere is serene and the composition is framed by a tree on the right foreground. The scene is a meditation on the concept of passing Time, very popular in late eighteenth-early nineteenth century European art.

Includes frame.

Dimensions: 43x68 cm

Vinzenz Fischer (1729–1810) was born in Bavaria, south of Germany. Following an initial artistic education in Passau, he joined the Vienna Academy as a student in 1751. He made a soujourn to Italy in 1753–1755 and was accepted as a member of the Vienna Academy in 1760. He was also an expert in architecture, which he taught at the Academy between 1764 and 1808.

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