His Impressionism changed into a dazzling Luminism. He painted a series of famous views of the River Thames when in exile in London.
history of painting
Rivers, rather than their banks, have been an unusual theme in landscape painting. Examples from Daubigny’s series in northern France, the specialist Frits Thaulow, and many others.
A Norwegian who became a pupil of JC Dahl in Dresden, and painting nocturnes of Nordic ports, and awe-inspiring rocky coasts and mountains.
The helmets of Minerva, Bellona, Mars, Perseus, Achilles, Aeneas, the Knights of the Round Table, and Joan of Arc.
How Arethusa was turned into a sacred stream, why King Lyncus was turned into a lynx, and what the Pierides were transformed into.
Paintings of the quais of Paris from Bonington in 1819, through Impressionism to the Divisionism of Signac and Maximilien Luce.
More common themes: mist and mountains, castles and ruins, and the Dresden skyline.
From Hannibal crossing the Alps with his war elephants, through the temptation of St Anthony, to the circus and an imaginary India.
Although the term didn’t come into use until 1791, panoramic landscapes started earlier, and largely stopped by the end of the 19th century.
Gnarled, twisted, wizened and barren trees are one of the bleakest sights in the winter in northern Europe, and a common motif in German Romanticism.
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