(from 2014.Old Walks and New)
Jean Barbault, French, 1705-1766
Part of the Aqueduct of Nero, 1747-1766, published posthumously in 1775, engraving
In the second-half of the eighteenth-century, during the Age of Reason, Ancient Rome [c. 500 B.C.-500 A.D.] was popular because many perceived the Romans as having valued rationality, calm, order and liberty. Neoclassical artists shared this attitude, creating many views of Roman ruins, like this one.
