Genre
Ruins
Ruins are time made visible. The broken column and the roofless arch carried a whole philosophy for the painters who loved them, the vanity of empire and the slow victory of nature over the works of man, and a crumbling structure could say more about history than any intact one.
Key artists
Works
Venus and Mars
Tobit Burying the Dead
Arches in Ruins
Fantastic Landscape
Italian landscape with soldiers
The Castle Ruin at Tharandt
Fantastic Landscape
Imaginary View with a Tomb by the Lagoon
The Portico of a Country Mansion
A Roman Landscape with Figures
Ruins of the Oybin
The Study of Art in Rome
Columns of the Temple of Neptune at Paestum
Adoration of the Magi
A Coastal Ruin in Italy
The nativity
View of the Basilica of Constantine from the Palatine, Rome
An Overgrown Mineshaft
Ruin by the Sea
Bacchanalia
Muleteers beside an Italian Ruin
Bathing Nymphs
Landscape after Ruisdael
View of Alkmaar
Monforte Altarpiece
Italian landscape with two Roman soldiers
Antikke ruiner omgivet af træer, i forgrunden en hyrde og nogle geder
Landscape with the ruin of an aquaduct
Nymphs Bathing
Witches' sabbath
Ruins in Italy
The Adoration of the Magi
Landscape with Tobias and the Angel
The Ruins of Brahehus near Jönköping, Sweden
Porta Furba, Rome
Landscape with the Ruins of Rijnsburg Abbey
Goethe in the Roman Campagna
The Basilica of Constantine, Rome
The Vision of Ezekiel
Capriccio of Ruins with Figures beneath an Archway
Landschap in Holland
Gipsy Camp in Ancient Ruins
Landscape
Ruins in the Roman Campagna
Landscape with Farm
Battle Painting
Landscape with the ruins of Castle Brederode in Santpoort
Landscape with Ruins
The Adoration of the Kings
River Landscape and a Ruined Abbey
Mountain landscape near Vianden
Memories of Italy
A View of Paestum
Ascanius Shooting the Stag of Sylvia
Still Life in an Architectural Setting
Ruins on the Edge of a Lake
Landscape with Roman Ruins
Valle Crucis Abbey
Tintern Abbey
Manorbier Castle
Landscape with sheep
Landschap met ruïnes
View of the Ripa Grande in Rome
Il Contento
Battle between Christians and Moslems
Halt of the Brigands
Ruined Castle and River
Arch of Triumph in Ruins
The death of Marcus Licinius Crassus
Tintern Abbey
An Oriental Harbour
L-Allegro (Italian Sunset)
Ruins of Brederode
Ruins with Figures
Ruins
Temple of Isis, Philae
Erechtheion
The end of the world
The Appian Way
Allegory of Air and Fire
Ruins with Figures
Roman Ruins and the Monument of Igel
Al-Mrejeh
Landscape with the Ruins of Rijnsburg Abbey, near Leiden
Christ and the Woman in Adultery
Ruins at the Sea
Landscape with figures and ruins
Ruins of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre
The Temple of Hercules in Cori near Velletri
The Forum at Pompeii with Vesuvius in the Background
The Old Door at Abadiyeh
Ruins of Sobieniu Castle
An Architectural Capriccio of the Roman Forum with Philosophers and Soldiers among Ancient Ruins, including the Arch of Janus Quadrifrons, the Sarcophagus of Santa Constanza, the Farnese Hercules and the Cincinnatus
Architecture Piece
Landscape with Castle Ruins
The Temptation of Saint Anthony (NMWA)
Tivoli: The Temple of the Sybil and the Campagna
Baalbek, Temple of Bacchus
Ruins of the Forum, Rome
Ancient Ruins
Harbour with Ruins
Landscape with Ruins in Olinda
Baalbek, Temple of Bacchus (2)
Frequently asked questions
What is Ruins?
Ruins are time made visible.
How many Ruins works does Artifact World Gallery have?
Artifact World Gallery holds 103 public-domain Ruins works, all free to view and download.
Who are the key Ruins artists?
Key Ruins artists in the collection include Paolo Veronese, Thomas Cole and Arnold Böcklin.