Dein Suchergebnis zum Thema: wind

Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, 1982.73.1 Winslow Homer, Breezing Up (A Fair Wind

A humanist and polymath, Alberti in his treatises laid theoretical foundations for Renaissance painting, sculpture, and architecture. This relief is a milestone in the history of portraiture, and it is the earliest independent self-portrait.
Wind, Edgar. Pagan Mysteries in the Renaissance. 1st ed.

Among early nineteenth-century artists, John Constable was one of the most assiduous and systematic students of the sky. As a landscape painter he was acutely aware of the sky as the principal source of light and of the extent to which cloud cover, the formations of clouds, and atmospheric effects could influence the appearances of nature.
He often annotated these studies with the date, time of day, wind direction, and

Among the most memorable characters in Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s hugely popular novel The Last Days of Pompeii (1834) is Nydia, a blind flower seller. In love with the noble-born Glaucus, who is engaged to Ione, Nydia knows the hopelessness of her position and endures her suffering with quiet courage.
The skirt flickers around the stick as if in a strong wind.

Rich and poor mingle on the frozen waters of a river. From the lower left corner, a man quietly observes the many skaters.
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia, 1997, unnumbered brochure. 2018 Water, Wind

often rumble down its sides,” “something like a heavy footstep was heard,” the wind

Chef and Native American food historian Loretta Barett Oden reflects on her friendship with artist G. Peter Jemison.
The wind is brisk, and I grow weary.

In June 1871, Thomas Moran, a gifted young artist working in Philadelphia, boarded a train that would take him to the far reaches of the western frontier and change the course of his career. Just a few months earlier he had been asked to illustrate a magazine article describing a wondrous region in Wyoming called Yellowstone—rumored to contain steam-spewing geysers, boiling hot springs, and bubbling mud pots.
Captivated by the bands of color that centuries of wind and water had revealed, Moran

into the light-drenched cross street as Italian and Red Cross flags billow in the wind

With „The Skater,“ Stuart blazed a new path in British portraiture. Its details tell the story of skating in 18th-century Britain.
So Stuart may have caught wind of Joseph Wright’s Two Young Gentleman in the Characters