AN ARCHITECTURAL CAPRICCIO OF ROMAN RUINS. OIL ON CANVAS. ATT TO GINER, VICENTE (CA. 1636-1681).

Landscape with classical ruins. Oil on canvas. Attributed to GINER, Vicente (ca. 1636-1681). Relined. Landscape with rocks and buildings in the background, which shows, in the foreground, buildings with a marked classical air, accompanied by two female sculptures on pedestals. At the foot of this building, there is a group of people dressed in classical style (women, children and a soldier with a lance). Vicente Giner, a canon and artist originally from Castellón, is documented as working in Rome during the last quarter of the 17th century (until his death here in 1681), where he, along with others, requested that Charles II create an Academy of Spanish artists in the city. Experts place him as a collaborator and outstanding follower of Viviano Codazzi (in whose workshop he worked in the 1670s, possibly coming from that of Cornelio de Wael). He painted perspectives of classicist temples and palaces, accompanied by representations normally of popular themes and in which the figures (in small numbers) are barely anecdotal elements in front of these architectures. His work is preserved in various private collections and institutions such as the Museum of Fine Arts in Valencia, the Collection of the Bank of Spain (Madrid), collections of the National Trust (Scotland), etc.

· Size: 76x3x91 cms. int 71x87 cms.