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From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Second View of the Forum of Nerva is a 1550 ink by Hieronymus Cock, a Renaissance work, depicting Ruins, held at National Gallery of Art.
Hieronymus Cock etched this view of Rome’s Forum of Nerva in 1550. The print shows crumbling marble arches and columns under a cloudy sky. It feels quiet, like a place where time has slowed. This etching captures the Forum’s ruins before modern digs changed them. Cock traveled to Rome to draw these scenes. He sold prints back home to wealthy collectors. Look up Cock’s other etchings of ancient Rome.
Hieronymus Cock, or Hieronymus Wellens de Cock, (1518 – 3 October 1570) was a Flemish painter and etcher as well as a publisher and distributor of prints.
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