# River Landscape [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [TASSI, Agostino]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Pen and ink, 15 x 20 cm ## Commentary Contrary to most artists of his time, Tassi was not at all interested in representing depth or a gradual recession into the far distance. By means of trees or rocks that block the view, he could reduce a landscape simply to the foreground, often open on one side to a vast expanse of sea or land, like in this drawing. In the 1630s these compositions enjoyed great popularity and were repeated endlessly, for instance by Salvator Rosa, Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione and Claude Lorrain in his early work. The small figures are typical of Tassi and recur throughout his career. ## Related artworks - [A Shipyard]() - [Capriccio with the Palazzo dei Conservatori]() - [Competition on the Capitoline Hill]() - [Frieze with ambassadors and spectators \(detail\)]() - [Imaginary Landscape with Temple of Sibyl at Tivoli]() - [Simulated loggia architecture with landscape views]() - [The Capture of Troy]() - [The Coral Fishers]() - [The Embarkation of a Queen]() - [View of the Acqua Acetosa, Rome]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()