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Provenance: Italian private collection

Ruin stone or Pietra Paesina is a variety of sedimentary rocks consisting of compressed limestone and clay found in the northern Apennines. Limestones that don’t look extraordinary on the outside are opened and reveal a hidden world within. The origin of these drawing-like landscapes is still unclear. However, they are certainly the result of the patient work of nature, which began about 50 million years ago.

Ruin marble was used all over Europe as inlays for furniture, for mosaics, or even as background for oil paintings. Only recently, starting at the beginning of the 19th century, these stones became independent objects of art. The stones that are found to be most interesting are cut into thin slabs, polished, and can now be admired as an abstract landscape painting.