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Manfred on the Jungfrau
Joshua Commanding the Sun to Stand Still upon Gibeon
View on the South Downs
The Valley of the Tyne, My Native Country near Henshaw
Joshua Commanding the Sun to Stand Still Upon Gibeon (Joshua
Figures Seated by a Lake in a Wooded Landscape
Paradise Lost: Adam and Eve Driven out of Paradise
A Man Playing a Harp with other Figures beside a LakeFROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG
The painting depicts an imagined scene of a ruined ancient city bathed in the nostalgic glow of twilight. The artist's detailed, almost archeological, interest in these Greek or Roman buildings is characteristic of neoclassicism, although the composition—which plunges suddenly from the foreground into a deep valley—and dramatic lighting are typical of Romantic painting.
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Gaspar van Wittel — View of Tivoli
Friedrich Horner — Der Parthenon auf der Akropolis zu Athen
Salvator Rosa (Italian, 1615–1673) — Ruins in a Rocky Landsc
Louise-Joséphine Sarazin de Belmont — The Roman Theater at T
Sebastiano Ricci — Landscape with Classical Ruins and Figure
Jacob Philipp Hackert — The Temple of Hercules in Cori near 
Hubert Robert — The Fountains
Hubert Robert — The Old Temple
Niccolô Codazzi — The Basilica of Constantine with a Doric C
Jean-Victor Bertin (French, 1767–1842) — An Aqueduct Near a 
Claude Lorrain — View of Delphi with a Procession
Giovanni Battista Lusieri (Italian, 1750–1825) — A View of t