Dark Moon: Environments Source: Hubert Robert

Taught in design and perspective, Robert used these skills to create paintings of 1700's urban and natural environments. He spent a total of 11 years in Rome, he studied the great city, ruins of the surrounding areas in Italy, and monuments within the city itself such as the Pantheon. Later in his career he acquired a passion for overgrown ruins.

The urban paintings and studies of ruins are what I find most interesting in Robert's work and it can clearly be seen that he uses his understanding of perspective to accurately capture the proportions of the ruins and urban areas he painted. His inclusion of bystanders in his painting also makes the spaces he paints that much more colossal and awe inspiring.