Clemente Ruta


Clemente Ruta was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque period.

Biography

Born at Parma, he first trained with a painter by the name of Ilario 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.