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
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:
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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
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
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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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
Beyond her, rocky mountains in ice blue and pale lilac purple span the horizon, which
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Schmidt-Rottluff, unidentified, unidentified, A Road with a Castle and Houses in Rocky
Best known for his large-scale, dramatic Alpine scenes that depict nature at its most sublime, Alexandre Calame was considered the leading Swiss landscape painter of the 19th century. Born in Vevey, Switzerland, on the banks of Lake Geneva, in 1810, Calame was deeply committed to his native landscape.
A rocky, slate-gray mountain brushed with lime-green trees that rises along the left
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