Crawford Notch, a deep valley in New Hampshire’s White Mountains, gained notoriety
Visual Description We look across a wide, low clearing at a mountain rising beyond rocky
To create this landscape, Albert Bierstadt drew on his experiences seeing the Rocky – and Sierra Nevada mountains while traveling through the West in the 1860s.
across the gleaming, forest-green surface of a lake at the foot of tall, jagged mountains
(Crawford Notch) A View of the Mountain Pass Called the Notch of the White Mountains
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Schmidt-Rottluff, unidentified, unidentified, A Road with a Castle and Houses in Rocky
During the course of Kent’s many far-flung travels, mountains came to occupy an especially
Visual Description A tall, rocky, pyramid-shaped mountain rising sharply from flat
Philip, 4th Baron Wharton, standing before a shimmering green drapery against a rocky
Behind the cloth and to our left, a craggy, rocky outcropping opens to a view of
Albert Bierstadt created this scenic view of Lake Lucerne and the Swiss Alps using dozens of sketches he made on-site. Bierstadt, a German immigrant, had returned to his birthplace for training.
past a grove of trees to a broad plain and a lake at the foot of towering, hazy mountains
One of Domenico Veneziano’s major works is an altarpiece that he painted about 1445 for the Church of Santa Lucia dei Magnoli, in Florence. The incident illustrated in this small panel from the base of the altarpiece is John’s act of exchanging his rich, worldly clothes for a rough, camel–hair coat.
Visual Description A young, nude, light-skinned man stands in the center of a rocky
John Martin combines landscape and historical painting to illustrate a dramatic story from the Bible’s Old Testament. When enemies attacked the city of Gibeon, its citizens appealed for help to an ally:
Zoom Out Recenter Visual Description Armies of men march and battle along a rocky
Wright’s artistic interests varied widely, ranging from portraiture and scientific topics in his early „candlelight“ period to popular subjects, romantic history, literature, and landscapes in later years. This painting dates from the end of Wright’s career.
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