MAKE A MEME View Large Image Paolo Monaldi - Peasants near Roman Ruins - Walters 371151.jpg Monaldi specialized in anecdotal images of peasants such as this idyllic scene with peasants during a break eating drinking and playing music It is an amusing image of a simple ...
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Keywords: Paolo Monaldi - Peasants near Roman Ruins - Walters 371151.jpg Monaldi specialized in anecdotal images of peasants such as this idyllic scene with peasants during a break eating drinking and playing music It is an amusing image of a simple life focused on immediate pleasures and contrasted with the ruins of the heroic past of ancient Rome The pyramid is surely based on the small one just outside the city walls built by a Roman named Caius Cestius in AD 11 but here it is placed in an idealized landscape Zeri Italian paintings in the Walters Art Gallery 418 530 ca 1760 Baroque Oil on canvas Visible painted surface cm 64 5 47 6 accession number 37 1151 10127 Don Marcello Massarenti Collection Rome date and mode of acquisition unknown 1881 catalogue no 158 1897 catalogue no 263 as Andrea Locatelli Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters with the Massarenti Collection 1902 A Renaissance Puzzle Heemskerck's Abduction of Helen The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1993 place of origin Rome Italy Walters Art Museum license 2D Baroque paintings in the Walters Art Museum Paolo Monaldi Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Pyramids in paintings
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