Danish painter Christen Købke captured the Forum's romantic desolation in 1841, during the Grand Tour era. Broken columns frame the distant cone of Vesuvius. The mountain that ended the city is still there, still active, still visible from the ruins.
© Christen Schjellerup Købke (Danish, 1810 - 1848) (1810 - 1848) – artist (Danish) Details on Google Art Project, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
