# Ruins at the Sea [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [BOTH, Jan]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on wood, 54,6 x 45,3 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. There are several versions of this typical Italianete landscape by Both \(in Dresden, Richmond etc.\). ## Related artworks - [Italian Landscape with Draughtsman \(detail\)]() - [Italian Landscape with Draughtsman]() - [Italian Landscape with Roman Warriors]() - [Italian Landscape with Ruined Tower]() - [Italianate Rocky Landscape]() - [Landscape with a Peasant Woman on a Mule]() - [Southern Landscape with a Ruin]() - [Susanna and the Elders]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()