Clementi Ruta

Clementi Ruta (1668–1767) was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque period.

Born at Parma, he first trained with a painter by the name of Spolverini, then later in Bologna with Carlo Cignani. He moved with the latter to Naples to work in the court of Charles of Bourbon. Ruta became blind in older life. He specialized in landscapes with pen and watercolour.

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