Landscape with Cows Watering in a Stream

Wooded Mountain Landscape with Waterfall and Travellers is a magnificent fantasy landscape in the Flemish tradition, painted in the first half of the 17th century by the Antwerp pa...

Landscape was a leading genre in 17th-century Dutch painting. During that century Dutch artists succeeded in formulating a type of representation that allowed them to depict the wo...

Claude Lorraine, whose artistic inspiration derived from the Roman Campagna, can be considered one of the great figures of 17th-century classical landscape painting. He arrived in ...

“Have just returned from a tour in search of the picturesque, ” wrote Thomas Cole in his diary on 8 July 1837, “[...] To Mr Durand the scenery was entirely new and I am happy in ha...

“I also hold that painting is a quite concrete art, and can consist of nothing but the representation of real, tangible things, ” wrote Gustave Courbet in an open letter to his stu...

A landscape with cattle. In the centre of the picture is a large old tree which towers above the ground; behind it are several other trees. To the right is a group of cattle: some ...

Exhibition text for “Women and art,” 8 March to 6 June 2004 at the Museum of Bohusläns. From a handwritten catalog of Uddevalla - Musei - Kulturhistorian - collections, Konsthistor...