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|en=The painting was purchased on the antique market in 1987. It presents an almost calligraphically precise view of a small square lined on three sides by ancient façades adorned with coats-of-arms, round Roman shields, baroque cartouches and votive tabernacles alternating with the colourful curtains of lower-class homes in a free combination that suggests the perpetuation of urban life through the centuries. Common folk bustle around a monumental 18th-century fountain, going about their everyday business in the midst of ancient remains. The painter’s blending of the tradition of the perspective view of monumental settings with the genre scene was to enjoy great popularity until the 1870s.

|en=The painting was purchased on the antique market in 1987. It presents an almost calligraphically precise view of a small square lined on three sides by ancient façades adorned with coats-of-arms, round Roman shields, baroque cartouches and votive tabernacles alternating with the colourful curtains of lower-class homes in a free combination that suggests the perpetuation of urban life through the centuries. Common folk bustle around a monumental 18th-century fountain, going about their everyday business in the midst of ancient remains. The painter’s blending of the tradition of the perspective view of monumental settings with the genre scene was to enjoy great popularity until the 1870s.

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