Like his compatriot Nicolas Poussin, Claude Lorrain forged his career in Rome. Claude’s vision of the Roman countryside is grounded in a careful observation of nature, but he transformed the landscape into a timeless, idealized world through his masterful rendering of sunlight and strict structuring of space.
A rocky bank is shown nearly in silhouette in the lower right corner, in front of
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painter and sculptor Ellsworth Kelly made this spectrum of paintings in 1978—for a bank
d’Auvergne-Lauraguais, Paris; sold by Wagram heirs though (Canadeesche Hypothek Bank
Throughout his six-decade-long career, Andrew Wyeth painted lonely rural landscapes, closely observed portraits, and crisp interior still lifes in a characteristically realistic and finely detailed style. His landscapes are almost entirely of locations in the Chadds Ford and Brandywine area of Pennsylvania and in coastal Maine, the places where he grew up and lived all his life.
New York, 1976-1977, no. 144, repro. 1977 Andrew Wyeth in Facsimile, United Bank
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exhibition has been provided by The Robert and Mercedes Eichholz Foundation, Lugano, Bank
This bucolic landscape depicts two horsemen who have stopped on a small rise overlooking a broad river valley to ask local herdsmen for directions. With figures and cattle silhouetted against an expansive sky and late afternoon light bathing the scene in a golden glow, the painting conveys the sense of peace and tranquility that pervaded the Netherlands after the signing of the Treaty of Münster in 1648 that ended the war against Spain and finally established the Dutch Republic.
Birds fly in the distance in the watery blue sky below a bank of dove-gray clouds
It might be said that with paintings like this one, Annibale Carracci invented the landscape as a subject for Italian baroque painting. Nature here is appreciated first and foremost for herself and not as the backdrop for a story.
The bank to our left is lined with reeds and tall grasses.
This painting, one of two views of Mortlake Terrace painted by Turner, is a view from the house, looking directly west into the luminous glow of the setting sun. Turner established the quiet mood of the late-afternoon scene with two ivy-covered elm trees, whose soft, feathery leaves and curving limbs frame the painting.
architectural details, and the carefully depicted windows in the buildings on the left bank
This is no “family� in the usual sense. A harlequin, a jester, a young man in a leotard, a boy in a blue costume, a girl in a tutu with a basket, and a woman in a flowered hat are arranged in this rose-hued landscape.
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Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640), one of the greatest masters of the 17th century, painted this masterpiece as a young artist in Rome. Rubens depicted a moment of high drama in this popular Greek myth that was famously recounted in Ovid’s Metamorphoses (c.
falling from a horse-drawn chariot in midair, surrounded by eleven women against a bank
