Wooded Landscape with a Distant View toward the Sea

Between 1830 and 1836 the painter George Catlin followed the trail of Meriwetther Lewis and William Clark’s mythical expedition along the Mississippi, becoming the first artist to ...

New acquisition, June 2014: View of San Pietro in Vincoli in Rome by Constantin Hansen Nationalmuseum has expanded its fine art collection with the acquisition of a view of Rome wi...

Unlike the Hudson River artists who, encouraged by the aesthetic categories of the sublime and the picturesque, centred on striking nature settings full of cataracts and large moun...

This is a watercolour entitled Fox Hill, by Alfred Waterhouse R. A. (1830-1905). It depicts the landscape view of a wooded pathway beside a lake with a woman and child standing by ...

"with trees in foreground, lake and ruins in middle-distance, distant mountains" Landscape with a clearing by a lake and a mountainous background. The lake is to the left of the pa...

“The whole landscape, which, seen by a favourable light, and in a genial temperature, had been found so lovely, appeared now like some pictured allegory of life, in which objects w...

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...

Burial chapel next to the Tower of Trigonion, Virgin orans, detail...