Wilderness Landscape Study

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...

“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...

This double-sided panel painting is one wing of a large altarpiece. During Lent the wings would have been closed, concealing the brightly painted panels and displaying only the mon...

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...

Post-first-world-war tableaux mark a qualitative highlight in Klee's work at the outset of the middle of his creative period. The "rhythmic landscapes with trees" group emerged fro...

“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...

Literature: “Simon Marcus Larsson,” Sweden’s General Association Stockholm 1944 in Kungl. Academy of the Free Arts. Exhibition catalog. All three John Johnson’s Larson paintings w...