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Ruins of Glastonbury Abbey
Michael Angelo RookerLinkedCulture matchlcp-59fddb1f6fdd
- Date
- 1794
- Medium
- paper, pencil
- Institution
- Rijksmuseum
- Object ID
- RP-T-1980-16
From the Rijksmuseum record
Rooker excelled in the rendering of buildings. He did not use lines drawn in pen, but rather only a brush and ink or watercolour. He frequently populated his architectural scenes with peasants, labourers and cattle. They often lend his work a gently ironic tone. Glastonbury Abbey had been very prosperous until King Henry VIII dissolved all of the monasteries in 1536, after which most of them gradually went to ruin.
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