Amnon and Tamar by Guercino https://www.nga.gov/artworks/66775-amnon-and-tamar
A narrow, vivid cobalt-blue cloth winds and flutters around his body from behind
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A narrow, vivid cobalt-blue cloth winds and flutters around his body from behind
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.
Upon closer inspection, a snake winds around the trunk.
The impressionist style developed as a method to render more accurately the appearance of the natural world, and was principally a technique for landscape painting. Corot, whose career began in the late 1820s when the academic tradition of landscape painting was being revived, was one of the most prolific and influential exponents of the genre.
Visual Description A young woman reclines and reads a book near a stream that winds
This monumental view of the Hudson River Valley was painted from memory in the artist’s London studio. Cropsey adopted a high vantage point, looking southeast toward the distant Hudson River and the flank of Storm King Mountain.
The land sweeps down to a grassy meadow crossed by a meandering stream that winds
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.
left illuminates four men standing in pairs on either side of a dirt road that winds
In The Spirit of War , a rugged mountain landscape provides the backdrop for a medieval wartime scene, all bathed in an eerie, fiery light: knights on horseback ride into battle, a distant settlement burns, and a mother and child cower on the ground.
Through the tangle of trees, a dirt road winds down the hill to a bridge of pale
Jacob van Ruisdael represents the pinnacle of seventeenth-century Dutch landscape painting. This great artist, the son of a painter and the nephew of Salomon van Ruysdael (see NGA 2007.116.1), began his career in Haarlem but moved to Amsterdam in about 1656.
The narrow stream winds toward us from the forest to splash into a rocky pool that
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.
An ice-blue stream winds from the lake across the plain while olive-green trees and
Cole’s renowned four-part series traces the journey of an archetypal hero along the „River of Life.“ Confidently assuming control of his destiny and oblivious to the dangers that await him, the voyager boldly strives to reach an aerial castle, emblematic of the daydreams of „Youth“ and its aspirations for glory and fame. As the traveler approaches his goal, the ever-more-turbulent stream deviates from its course and relentlessly carries him toward the next picture in the series, where nature’s fury, evil demons, and self-doubt will threaten his very existence.
Recenter Visual Description A young man sets out in a golden boat on a river that winds
Water winds into the distance to meet white buildings along the right edge of the