Ruins: The Silent Beauty of Ruined Sites

Monuments of history that tell stories without words.


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Ruins: The Silent Beauty of Ruined Sites

Monuments of history that tell stories without words.

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Ruins
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Timeless Witnesses of Past Civilizations

Timeless Witnesses of Past Civilizations

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View of the Esquiline Hill, Rome...
Undated | coloured engraving

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Egypcian Landscape
1883 | oil on canvas

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The Ancient Town of Agrigentum, ...
1787 | oil on canvas

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Ruins
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Architectural Ruins
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Hermit among the Ruins
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The Ponte Salario, c.1775
1775 | oilon canvas

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Foro Romano
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The Old Bridge, c.1760
1760 | oil on canvas

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Capriccio with Roman Ruins, a Py...
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Ruins in a Landscape, 1870
1870 | pen and ink on paper

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Dream in the Ruins of Pompeii, 1...
1866 | oil on canvas

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Sir John Soane's Rotunda of the ...
Undated | watercolour heightened with white on paper

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A Capriccio view of Roman ruins,...
1737 | oil on canvas

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The Infant Moses, c.1876-78
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Temple in Ruins
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Capriccio Landscape
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Gight Castle, 1851
1851 | watercolour on paper

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Ruins of the Parthenon, 1880
1880 | oil on canvas

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Landscape with Ruins, c.1782-5 (...
1782 | oil on paper on canvas

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Preaching Among the Ancient Ruin...
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The Colosseum, Rome (wc und penc...
Undated | watercolour on laid paper

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The ruins of Olinda
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The Colosseum
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Peasants Amongst Roman Ruins, 1743
1743 | oil on canvas

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Architectural Ruins, 1771 (gouache)
1771 | gouache

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Ruins of the Roman Forum, 1859 (...
1859 | oil on wood

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Almond Trees and Ruins, Sicily, ...
1887 | oil on canvas

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Parc de Marly
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Entrance to the Colosseum and th...
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Italian Ruins, 1876
1876 | oil on canvas

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Portico of the Temple of Kom Omb...
1838 | pencil, watercolour and gouache on paper

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Landscape with Ruins
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St. Peter and St. John in a Land...
Undated | oil on copper

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The Coliseum amongst Roman Ruins...
1730 | oil on canvas

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Roman ruins with the Arch of Tit...
1734 | oil on canvas

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Ruins with Saint Paul preaching,...
1735 | oil on canvas

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Ruins of the Rosemont castle
1861 | oil on canvas

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Monastery Ruins (Gothic Church R...
Undated | pen and ink and watercolour on paper

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The Ruins of the Temple of the S...
1861 | oil on canvas

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Landscape with Ruins, 1854
1854 | oil on canvas

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The Watering Place
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The Ruins of the Chapel in the S...
1795 | watercolour with some brown ink, over indications in graphite

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The Parthenon, Athens, 1810-37
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Italian landscape with ruins
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The Ruins of Chateau de Pierrefo...
1861 | oil on canvas

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Ruins of the church of Santa Mar...
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Cockermouth Castle, c.1810
1810 | oil on canvas

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Ruins of an aqueduct near Ephesu...
1810 | coloured engraving

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Landscape with the Rest on the F...
1671 | oil on canvas

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Dammarie-les-Lys, Ruines de labb...
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Italian Peasants among Ruins, c....
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Ruins on Pir Pihar, near Monghy,...
1790 | watercolour over graphite on paper

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Furness Abbey
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Landscape with Ruins, 1673
1673 | oil on canvas

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Ancient Ruins with a Great Arch ...
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Ruins with a Sibyl and other Fig...
1720 | oil on canvas

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Classical Composition, a Tomb
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Tillycairn Castle, 1840s
1840 | watercolour on paper

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Roche Abbey, view from the West,...
1842 | colour lithograph

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Ruins of the castle of Columbus ...
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Ruins

Time cannot be turned back. But in the course of time, it often restores the seemingly unfinished through its own violence. Ruins, signs of decline and decay, thus also always symbolize a new beginning. New things can be built on the remains of the old. Ruins have always fascinated people in their exploration of their own history. Beginning with the Renaissance, they restored preserved ruins. Later, they even had artificial ruins built to decorate their palaces and gardens. Many artists made paintings of ruins, creating emblems of historical greatness.

Heinrich Heine wrote from Italy to his friend Eduard von Schenk in 1828:
"Here the stones speak and I understand their silent language. They seem likewise to feel quite deeply what I think. An old broken column from Roman times ... a weathered gothic pillar piece, the like understand me quite well. Yet am I myself a ruin walking among ruins, a ruin of men."

Looking at ruins reminded Heine that he himself is the creature of a long history. A transient creature to be sure, but at the same time able to make a mark that would stand the test of time and remain. To look upon a decaying ruin gives the uplifting sense of presence and the knowledge of being alive.

Ruins bear witness to the fact that things are subject to the assaults of time and destructiveness - but can resist and endure. Like the "Ruins of the Parthenon", painted by Sanford Robinson Gifford, or the "Ruins of Thebes", photographed by John Beasly Greene, they remain signs of a tradition and cultural values that are unforgettable and endure in eternity.

Ruins

Time cannot be turned back. But in the course of time, it often restores the seemingly unfinished through its own violence. Ruins, signs of decline and decay, thus also always symbolize a new beginning. New things can be built on the remains of the old. Ruins have always fascinated people in their exploration of their own history. Beginning with the Renaissance, they restored preserved ruins. Later, they even had artificial ruins built to decorate their palaces and gardens. Many artists made paintings of ruins, creating emblems of historical greatness.

Heinrich Heine wrote from Italy to his friend Eduard von Schenk in 1828:
"Here the stones speak and I understand their silent language. They seem likewise to feel quite deeply what I think. An old broken column from Roman times ... a weathered gothic pillar piece, the like understand me quite well. Yet am I myself a ruin walking among ruins, a ruin of men."

Looking at ruins reminded Heine that he himself is the creature of a long history. A transient creature to be sure, but at the same time able to make a mark that would stand the test of time and remain. To look upon a decaying ruin gives the uplifting sense of presence and the knowledge of being alive.

Ruins bear witness to the fact that things are subject to the assaults of time and destructiveness - but can resist and endure. Like the "Ruins of the Parthenon", painted by Sanford Robinson Gifford, or the "Ruins of Thebes", photographed by John Beasly Greene, they remain signs of a tradition and cultural values that are unforgettable and endure in eternity.


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