View of a Roman house 1792 Poster

Hubert Robert French painter born May 22, 1733, Paris, France died April 15, 1808, Paris French landscape painter sometimes called Robert des Ruines because of his many romantic representations of Roman ruins set in idealized surroundings. Imaginary View of the Grand Gallery of the Louvre in Ruins, oil on … [Credits : © Photos.com/Jupiterimages]Robert left Paris for Rome in 1754 and studied at the French Academy there. He also met the French painter Jean-Honoré Fragonard in Rome, and in 1760 they traveled together with the Abbé de Saint-Non through southern Italy on a drawing expedition. Robert developed a strong fascination with architecture and ruins, and he was strongly influenced by Giovanni Battista Piranesi,