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). Relining. Landscape with rocks and buildings in the background that presents, in the foreground, some buildings with a marked classicist air, accompanied by two female sculptures on separate pedestals. At the foot of this building, there is a group of people, dressed in the classical manner (women, children and a soldier with a spear). Vicente Giner, canon and artist originally from Castellón, is documented working in Rome during the last quarter of the 17th century (until he died here in 1681), where he requested, along with others, Charles II to 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 Cornelio de Wael's). He painted perspectives of classicist temples and palaces, accompanied by representations normally of popular themes and in which the figures (in a small number) are barely anecdotal elements compared to those architectures. Several private collections and institutions preserve his work, such as the Museum of Fine Arts of Valencia, the Collection of the Bank of Spain (Madrid), collections of the National Trust (Scotland), etc.

· Size: 76x3x91 cms. int 71x87 cms.