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Later There Was a Great Hammering at the Door" Close Modal "A Money Saver" Coin Bank
Later There Was a Great Hammering at the Door" Close Modal "A Money Saver" Coin Bank
tendril of roses that rises to the left in the Bruce version is replaced by a cloud bank
Unlike some of his contemporaries, John Frederick Kensett felt no need to travel to the tropics or the American West to find compelling subjects to paint. Instead, he continually revisited several familiar locales in New York and New England where he could explore the ways in which the same motif was altered by subtle differences in light and atmosphere.
which comes a third of the way up the canvas, nearly blends into the milky white bank
The three cargo ships in this large painting are the type of wide-bellied, seagoing vessels used to transport much of the commodities that generated the wealth of the Dutch in the seventeenth century. Flying the red, white, and blue flag of the Dutch Republic, these floating symbols of national prosperity are nevertheless in peril of crashing on the rocky shore.
A bank of billowing, slate-gray clouds at the center of the sky separates a fog-gray
Cárdenas-Arroyo, Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá Inter-American Development Bank
hills slope down to a misty blue-gray plain, where a river winds along a jagged bank
Visual Description We look slightly down onto a group of people gathered along the bank
tendril of roses that rises to the left in the Bruce version is replaced by a cloud bank
With „The Skater,“ Stuart blazed a new path in British portraiture. Its details tell the story of skating in 18th-century Britain.
A leafless tree stands on the bank of the river to the right, and a grey sky stretches
After learning the fundamentals of drawing and painting in his native Leiden, Rembrandt van Rijn went to Amsterdam in 1624 to study for six months with Pieter Lastman (1583–1633), a famous history painter. Upon completion of his training Rembrandt returned to Leiden.
water winds around the base of the promontory and extends to a dark green, shadowy bank