Nina L. Dubin

Nina L. Dubin is assistant professor of art history at the Uni of Illinois, Chicago. Hubert Robert (1733-1808) was a French landscape painter who pioneered scenes of ruined buildings, earning him the moniker Robert des Ruines. Many of his paintings are accurate images of real buildings, but he also produced invented scenes including pictures of contemporary buildings as they might look after falling into decay.

Nina L. Dubin is assistant professor of art history at the Uni of Illinois, Chicago. Hubert Robert (1733-1808) was a French landscape painter who pioneered scenes of ruined buildings, earning him the moniker Robert des Ruines. Many of his paintings are accurate images of real buildings, but he also produced invented scenes including pictures of contemporary buildings as they might look after falling into decay. See less