About this artwork
Bartholomeus Breenbergh produced a series of 50 small-scale etchings of Roman ruins based on drawings he made in Rome during the 1620s. He worked them into prints after his return to the Netherlands and published them as a set around 1640. His paintings and prints did not yet show the influence of Rembrandt’s experimental effects with the etching needle. As a result, this scene of tiny religious figures huddled under an outcropping of rock is more documentary than emotionally charged.
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Prints and Drawings
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Artist
- Bartholomeus Breenbergh
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Title
- Grotto and Friars, from The Ruins of Rome
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Place
- Holland (Artist's nationality)
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Date
- Made 1635–1645
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Medium
- Etching in black on ivory laid paper
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Dimensions
- Plate: 10 × 6.1 cm (3 15/16 × 2 7/16 in.); Sheet: 10.2 × 6.3 cm (4 1/16 × 2 1/2 in.)
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Credit Line
- The Wallace L. DeWolf and Joseph Brooks Fair Collections
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Reference Number
- 1920.2027
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IIIF Manifest
- https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/106671/manifest.json
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