A Roman Landscape with Figures, probably 1630s, Oil on copper, Diameter 16 in. (40. 6 cm), Paintings, Goffredo Wals (German, Cologne, born ca. 1590?95, died 1638?40 Calabria), Wals was a key figure in the generation of painters who took the Roman countryside as their subject, and focused on the ancient monuments of the area. Like his Northern contemporaries, Cornelis Poelenburgh, Bartholomeus Breenbergh, and Claude Lorrain, Wals made drawings from nature