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.
landscape
Romantic views of castles in the mountains from Carl Friedrich Lessing, and more accurate accounts by Gustave Courbet and others.
The forgotten French Impressionist Félix Cals, Neo-Impressionist Georges Seurat, and two former Nabis, Félix Vallotton and Édouard Vuillard also painted this coastal town.
Richard Parkes Bonington, Camille Corot, Eugène Boudin, Claude Monet and Johan Jongkind all painted this small town opposite Le Havre.
A journey from the southern shore of Lake Geneva and Mont Blanc, travelling east to the Zugspitze, highest mountain in Germany.
Artists who flocked to the Prado in Madrid often visited Granada, where the towers of the Alhambra rise to compete with the snowy peaks of the Sierra Nevada.
An illustrated account of the 14th successful ascent of Mont Blanc, complete with champagne and red wine, and two oil paintings of other climbs.
From Rembrandt to the First World War, through specialists including Atkinson Grimshaw, Eugène Jansson, Schikaneder, and Le Sidaner.
Mounts Fuji, Cotopaxi, Merapi, St Helens, and above all the most painted of all, Vesuvius during its violent eruptions.
Paintings of rugged mountains on the coast and lining deep fjords, from Peder Balke, Hans Gude, Eilert Normann, and others.
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