Poussin, Church, Grimshaw, Peterssen, Bierstadt, Turner, Cézanne, Klimt and Hodler paint lakes.
Hodler
The humble beast of burden, carrying drunken kings, Mary and the infant Jesus, the Good Samaritan, Sancho Panza, and young lambs.
First fully developed in the Dutch Golden Age, here are Constable’s storms, Turner’s vortices, Boudin’s textured dusk, ending in Paul Nash’s imagination.
Contents with links for each article in the series, with lists of mountains and locations covered.
The fall of Icarus, Raphael’s cartoon of the Miraculous Draft of Fishes, Hodler, Larsson, John Constable and others painting anglers.
Mountain huts, refuges, and inns by Calame, Hodler. Rosa Bonheur and others, with a couple of photos of truly awe-inspiring huts in the Alps.
The hills are alive with eagles, black grouse, sheep, highland cattle, deer, and even the occasional goat.
The sun is near the horizon, but is it dawn or dusk? How to tell them apart without trusting a title that may not be the artist’s.
A journey from the southern shore of Lake Geneva and Mont Blanc, travelling east to the Zugspitze, highest mountain in Germany.
Waterfalls in mountains are spectacular, and difficult to access. Examples include the falls where Sherlock Holmes fought with Moriarty.