# Landscape with Ruins

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## Artwork

- Artist: [STEVENS, Pieter](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/stevens-pieter-rc7b4917a9a6453>)
- Date: 1601-1650
- Technique: Pen, brown ink, wash, 203 x 165 mm

## Commentary

In this drawing Stevens applied a characteristically Late Mannerist solution: architectural remains and huge stones in the foreground frame the perspective view of a townscape, either Roman or imaginary, opening up through it.

## Related artworks

- [Landscape and Pond](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/stevens-pieter-rc7b4917a9a6453/landscape-and-pond-r5545a1e883be97>)
- [Landscape with a Footbridge](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/stevens-pieter-rc7b4917a9a6453/landscape-with-a-footbridge-r7b294c49bfac18>)
- [Mountain Valley with Inn and Castle \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/stevens-pieter-rc7b4917a9a6453/mountain-valley-with-inn-and-castle-detail-r46cf97c3a5aaf8>)
- [Mountain Valley with Inn and Castle](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/stevens-pieter-rc7b4917a9a6453/mountain-valley-with-inn-and-castle-r51cc3d7ba8a493>)
- [Temptation of Christ](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/stevens-pieter-rc7b4917a9a6453/temptation-of-christ-r36a699c98d6a54>)
- [Waterfall](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/stevens-pieter-rc7b4917a9a6453/waterfall-r71c2e3b560310d>)
- [Weir](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/stevens-pieter-rc7b4917a9a6453/weir-r5506aaff1861c3>)

## Attribution

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