The Square of Saint Mark’s, Venice by Canaletto https://www.nga.gov/artworks/32588-square-saint-marks-venice
hats and shin-length capes or jackets over stockings in tones of charcoal gray, olive
Meintest du oliver?
hats and shin-length capes or jackets over stockings in tones of charcoal gray, olive
In 1648 a contemporary writer noted that Willem Claesz Heda was a specialist in breakfast and banquet still lifes, painting „fruit, and all kinds of knick-knacks.“ At first sight, Heda’s largest known still-life painting appears to welcome the viewer to a sumptuous feast. Yet pewter plates teeter precariously over the table’s edge, while a translucent goblet and a silver tazza have toppled over, indicating that the feast has already been enjoyed.
A few glistening olives sit in a small pewter plate, and one olive sits on the tabletop
pitcher is marine blue and the left two thirds is mostly straw yellow, with one round olive-green
She is covered only by an olive-green drape over her left thigh, on our right.
hats and capes over suits near the lower center, and the women wear clothing in olive
Blue Morning is the last of four paintings that George Bellows executed from 1907 to 1909 depicting the construction site of the Pennsylvania Station railroad terminal in New York City. Undertaken by the Pennsylvania Railroad and designed by architectural firm McKim, Mead, &
embedded in an area otherwise painted with short, diagonal strokes in topaz blue, olive
From a distance of ten feet or so, Monet’s brushstrokes blend to yield a convincing view of the Seine and the pleasure boats that drew tourists to Argenteuil. Up close, however, each dab of paint is distinct, and the scene dissolves into a mosaic of paint—brilliant, unblended tones of blue, red, green, yellow.
They bask in warm sunlight against a row of emerald and olive-green trees.
Olive-green and ochre-yellow hills roll back to a body of water with a town on the
There are two paintings hanging on the olive-green wall of the room to each side
Above the procession floats an angel holding an olive branch, symbolizing peace,