Do we know everything about our history? Are there any points in it that contradict common sense and the general laws of human evolution? The French artist Hubert Robert (1733-1808) traveled a lot in Europe and left us some very interesting paintings from which we can unearth something about our past. It is believed that Hubert had a good imagination and he painted many of his canvases only from his many fantasies about majestic ruins, but is this really so? Is this even possible? The paintings clearly show that the people depicted on them live among the ruins of past civilizations and absolutely cannot at least bring them into a decent look, not to mention some kind of restoration. Either people were very lazy, or they could not work on such a scale and using technology unknown to them. Unfortunately, due to the ignorance of our ancestors, not so many remnants of past civilizations have survived to our times, but the existing specimens pose quite a few inconvenient questions to our historians, who either modestly keep silent or carry complete nonsense, thereby contaminating the historical memory of great civilizations.
Interior of the Temple of Diana at Nimes (1783)
Ruins of a terrace in Marley Park (1784)
Architectural landscape with a canal (1783)
The Painter Among the Ancient Ruins (1796)
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Use of the ancient ruins as a public bath (1798)
Antique temple, the so-called quadrangular house in Nimes (1783)
Doric temple ruins (1783)
Villa Madama near Rome (1762)
Colosseum (1763)
Pavilion with a cascade (1767)
Painters (1790)
Demolition of the castle of Meudon (1806)
Laundresses in the ruins of the Colosseum (1767)
A hermit prays on the ruins of a Roman temple (1760)
Stable in the ruins of Villa Julia (1762)
View of the port of Ripetta in Rome (1766)
Swimming pool surrounded by a colonnade (1772)
Arc de Triomphe and amphitheater in Orange (1787)
Pont du Gard (1787)
Colosseum (1790)
At the Hermit's (1775)
Residential ruins (1790)
Passage at the obelisk (1773)
Fire (1787)
Landscape with arch and dome of St. Peter in Rome (1773)
Column Staircase (1774)
Forgotten Statue (1790)
Ruins of Capriccio (1786)
Part two.