Italian school of the late seventeenth century. Circle of ASCANIO LUCIANI (Naples, 1621 - 1706)."Capriccio of ancient ruins".Oil on canvas.With overpaints and old restorations. Relined painting.The 20th century frame is damaged.Measurements: 72 x 95 cm; 82 x 104 cm (frame).This "Veduta" or "Capricho", close to the circle of Ascanio Luciani, offers us a panoramic landscape built from the reproduction of various monuments of classical style, to which is added the romantic concept of the ruin. The work in question shows an idealized landscape in which a series of ruins of clear Roman influence stand out, such as the façade of a temple on the right, an arch towards the front, fragments of columns or friezes arranged in the foreground, etc. Regarding the landscape genre, it is worth mentioning how, apart from the Venetian "veduta" model, in 17th century Italy the type we see here will prevail, a landscape that starts from the classicist model created by the Carracci to evolve in a monumental and architectural line. The genre of the landscape view with ruins or classical monuments, real or invented, enjoyed great success from the nineteenth century, especially as a result of Romanticism. The taste for the artistic remains of the past, the generalization of travel by writers and artists in search of monuments and works of art that would serve as a source of inspiration, and the discovery of important ancient remains such as those of the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum undoubtedly contributed to the success of the genre. It is a pictorial genre, on the other hand, that has its roots in the 17th century, in the veduta, not