Architectural fantasy with palace, colonnade and church

Oil painting of Padmini's Palace in Chittaurgarh, Rajasthan by Marianne North, dated December 1878.Initially Marianne North (1830-1890) only painted botanical specimens and travell...

Among the new genres in Dutch painting developed during the Golden Age was that of paintings of architectural motifs. This sub-genre took on its own independent existence, in a man...

This view of Hackney Church was taken from Pig Well, one of several nearby wells known for the purity of their water.In medieval times, the church had been dedicated to St Augustin...

Oil painting of Udaipur from the Palace, by Marianne North dated 1st January 1879.Initially Marianne North (1830-1890) only painted botanical specimens and travelled around the wor...

Oil painting of a tank and tomb within the palace of Alwar in Rajasthan, by Marianne North, dated November 1878.Initially Marianne North (1830-1890) only painted botanical specimen...

During the 1870s, on returning from his lengthy tour of Europe and the Near East, Church supervised the construction of Olana, a grand neo-Persian-style mansion where he would spen...

In the United States the dissemination of the writings of the German naturalist Alexander von Humboldt in the mid-nineteenth century aroused a growing interest in South America, to...