The "Romantic" landscape
Between the second half of the seventeenth, the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century artists and writers began to look at this scenery with greater sensibility. The contemplation of so much desolation became a metaphor and a lesson, it became an apologue of the lost greatness of civilizations and man, it turned to melancholy contemplation (or fantasizing) of destiny and life. This is how the suggestive romantic landscapes were born; capable of conveying moral and sentimental as well as aesthetic values. The renovation work on the Appia Antica, begun in the mid nineteenth century was largely inspired by the same sentiments.
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