Plate 2: Calidarium at the Baths of Diocletian, with a man striding toward the right foreground, from the series 'The Ruins of Rome'
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
sheet: 3 7/16 x 4 3/4 in. (8.8 x 12.1 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011
Accession Number
2012.136.662
Tags
RuinsMen
About the Artist
Bartholomeus Breenbergh
Probably was apprenticed in Amsterdam. He was one of the early Dutch italianates, that is, northern artists who travelled to Italy in the 1620s and were inspired by southern landscapes. On his return, he settled in Amsterdam and his landscapes were developed as more severe and monumental, often with historical subjects; strongly influenced by the Pre-Rembrandtists. Comment on works: Landscapes; Ru...