# Ruins in Italy

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## Artwork

- Artist: [BERCHEM, Nicolaes](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/berchem-nicolaes-recc5d504ed1192>)
- Date: 1651-1700
- Technique: Oil on panel, 52 x 42 cm

## Commentary

Many of the Dutch Italianate painters concentrated less on actual Italian themes than on the bright Mediterranean light. There was evidently a demand in the 17th century for paintings of shepherds and cattle in an imaginary and hilly foreign land in which enthusiasts undoubtedly recognized Arcadia. Jan Both, Nicolaes Berchem, Karel Dujardin, Jan Asselyn and Adam Pynacker were masters of the genre.

## Related artworks

- [A Harbour Scene](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/berchem-nicolaes-recc5d504ed1192/a-harbour-scene-rd956ef35bbf8e1>)
- [A Southern Harbour Scene](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/berchem-nicolaes-recc5d504ed1192/a-southern-harbour-scene-rd62cf65f53581c>)
- [A Standing Shepherd](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/berchem-nicolaes-recc5d504ed1192/a-standing-shepherd-r4016a12fe87cfc>)
- [A Young Woman Tuning a Lute](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/berchem-nicolaes-recc5d504ed1192/a-young-woman-tuning-a-lute-r01477b2c3a1c90>)
- [An Italianate Landscape](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/berchem-nicolaes-recc5d504ed1192/an-italianate-landscape-r1351aa5f661ddb>)
- [Animal Study](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/berchem-nicolaes-recc5d504ed1192/animal-study-r99e7d9d62f5794>)
- [Evening Landscape](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/berchem-nicolaes-recc5d504ed1192/evening-landscape-r4ae61d68f2b520>)
- [Evening Landscape with Drovers and their Animals](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/berchem-nicolaes-recc5d504ed1192/evening-landscape-with-drovers-and-their-animals-r87a62701307073>)
- [Herdsmen and Herds at a Waterfall](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/berchem-nicolaes-recc5d504ed1192/herdsmen-and-herds-at-a-waterfall-r3f1fe19bd3d8c2>)
- [Hunters Resting](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/berchem-nicolaes-recc5d504ed1192/hunters-resting-red22998024e3a0>)
- [Italian Landscape at Sunset](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/berchem-nicolaes-recc5d504ed1192/italian-landscape-at-sunset-r74a8f8fc014be3>)
- [Italian Landscape with Bridge](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/berchem-nicolaes-recc5d504ed1192/italian-landscape-with-bridge-re31feab23793ed>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)