Roelandt Savery was born in the Flemish city of Kortrijk (Courtrai). During the religious upheavals of the 1580s his family made their way to the northern Netherlands, finally settling in Haarlem, where his older brother Jacques (Jacob, c.
paper, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, 2023.103.1 Landscape with Elijah Perching on a Rocky
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
A rocky shore in warm tones of orange and purple is closest to the viewer, with two
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
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
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.
The rocky outcropping with the cave opening rises steeply along the left edge of
Description A pale-skinned man stands in front of a door-like opening set into a rocky
To our right, a ruined building nestled among trees stands atop a rocky outcropping
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
Imaginary River Landscape , monogrammed and dated 1670, is one of Herman Saftleven’s most charming and delicately rendered depictions of this meandering river valley. Here he has harkened back to the worldview landscapes of Pieter Brueghel the Elder, positioning the viewer in an elevated position so that the expansive vista extends to the distant horizon.
Most of the mountains, trees, and buildings in the middle and deep distance are painted
