The Porta Portello, Padua by Canaletto https://www.nga.gov/artworks/46152-porta-portello-padua
people walk, stand, sit, and work across the turf, among the buildings, and over a bridge
people walk, stand, sit, and work across the turf, among the buildings, and over a bridge
visually slowed by large wooden barges tied along the waterway’s brick walls and by a bridge
The US national park system exists in part because of artists.
Grizzly Giant, Mariposa Grove and Moran’s Tower at Tower Falls, Yellowstone may evoke
Thomas Cole turns the landscape into a backdrop for a medieval tale in The Departure , one of a pair of luminous paintings set at sunrise and sunset . The lord of a great castle and his company leave for a quest in the bright light of an early spring morning.
high, craggy mountain peak while eighteen armored knights ride toward us along a bridge
We see the city of Paris from the banks of the Seine River as night begins to fall. The buildings in the distance are hazy.
A shallowly arched bridge marches across the river in the middle distance.
This rare example of an intact portable triptych from the late fifteenth century is further enhanced by its superb state of preservation. On the exterior wings are two of the most popular saints in Western art, Saints Barbara and Catherine, who represent the active and the contemplative life, respectively.
Hazy in the distance, a city wall encloses steeples and buildings, and a bridge spans
Allen 1937 The Bayonne Bridge is pictured here under construction as a pre-WPA
Crawford Notch, a deep valley in New Hampshire’s White Mountains, gained notoriety in 1826 when nine lives were lost in a catastrophic avalanche nearby. Cole’s painting depicts the site of an earlier landslide whose destruction prompted the victims—Mr.
between the hills, almost at the center of the composition, a massive mountain towers
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