In about 1600, Hendrick Goltzius, who was famous across Europe for his extraordinary abilities as a draftsman and printmaker, turned his talents to painting. In 1616 he painted this magnificent image of Adam and Eve reclining in the Garden of Eden like mythological lovers.
Eve, the scene opens up onto a landscape with a grassy expanse leading back to rocky
There are white buildings with brown roofs in the distance in front of rocky, powder-blue
The US national park system exists in part because of artists.
Their works celebrate the expansive forests, rugged mountains, and great lakes and
Its Christian subject matter, simplicity of organization, and lack of shock value separate The Sacrament of the Last Supper from most of Salvador Dal۪̉s other works. Dal۪̉s reputation from the late 1920s to the mid-1940s was founded on his surrealist manner and use of Freudian dream imagery.
periwinkle-blue water stretches from behind the table to a row of low, gossamer-white, rocky
by a stone-gray structure with a squared opening and, to the left, with a brown, rocky
Jan Both was one of the most important Dutch painters of Italianate landscapes. In 1637 or 1638 he joined his older brother Andries in Rome and stayed there until his return to his native city of Utrecht in 1642.
illuminates four men standing in pairs on either side of a dirt road that winds between rocky
In The Spirit of War , a rugged mountain landscape provides the backdrop for a medieval
Description A turreted, sprawling stone castle, bronzed by the setting sun, crowns a rocky
Titian shows the saint as if on the peak of a mountain, reacting in awe and astonishment
Description From far below, we look up at an older man with standing on a cliff edge or rocky
Italian Echoes in the Rocky Mountains.
When you think about the US West, what images and stories come to mind?
rights to the territory of Louisiana—stretching from the Mississippi River to the Rocky
