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By 1779, Benjamin West had conceived his life’s „great work,“ intending to rebuild the Royal Chapel at Windsor Castle as a shrine to Revealed Religion. After sponsoring the elaborate scheme for two decades, George III abruptly canceled it in 1801.
His brown curls and the animal skin blow in the wind.
A mighty wind whips banners, sails, and trees; the waves roil; clouds roll down from
In both instances a small wooden shelter atop the pole protects the beacon from wind
Aert van der Neer possessed a wonderful ability to convey the activities and atmosphere of a calm winter day. Under a light blue sky scattered with clouds, people of all ages skate, push sleds, ride in horse-drawn sleighs, and socialize on a frozen river.
Gallery of Art, Washington, 2001-2002, unnumbered catalogue, repro. 2018 Water, Wind
Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890) is one of the most popular and universally recognized artists of all time. A remarkably prolific artist, he produced approximately 900 paintings and 1,100 drawings during a brief career spanning a mere decade.
Instead, pure flora is whipped up by the wind.
Domenichino was trained at the art academy run by the Carracci family in Bologna during the last decades of the sixteenth century. In 1602 he joined his master Annibale Carracci in Rome and assisted him with the fresco decorations of the galleria in the Palazzo Farnese.
God’s gray beard and hair blow back as if in a wind.
In The Crucifixion with the Converted Centurion , Lucas Cranach the Elder chose to portray a scene of religious redemption. The crucified Christ, silhouetted against a darkened and troubled sky, is at the point of death;
His long loincloth swirls in the wind on either side of his knees.
This Venus is among the few life-size Renaissance bronze statues in the United States and, certainly, one of the best. Her proportions recall classical ideals of feminine beauty, but are a little fuller, more rounded and compact.
The luxuriant tresses of her hair, bound in knots and chased with fine lines, wind
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you might see little twigs that had blown onto your path, things moved around by wind
Salomon van Ruysdael’s masterful River Landscape with Ferry has a visual force that reflects the sense of pride the Dutch felt at the time of the signing of the Treaty of Münster in 1648, which gave full autonomy to the Dutch Republic. After war of independence from Spanish rule that lasted eighty years, the Dutch set out to explore the myriad visual delights of the prosperous country that they could finally claim as their own.
(shown only in Greenwich, New York, and San Antonio). 2018 Water, Wind, and Waves
