At his third attempt, the young Poussin made it to Rome, where he found an unusual patron who was an obsessive collector and friend of Galileo.
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More wonderful paintings from Pierre Bonnard, JW Waterhouse, Théo van Rysselberghe, Nikolai Astrup and others.
Reduced to viewing the blossom online? Here are wonderful paintings of tree blossom from Millais, Sisley, van Gogh and others.
Beyond his most famous painting ‘American Gothic’, Wood shows life in the rural Midwest, and tells stories of Paul Revere and George Washington.
He completes his journey through Cubism to abstraction, but takes a pause to paint a few landscapes around 1916-17.
Paintings by Bonington, Jongkind, Monet, Vincent van Gogh, and Piet Mondrian show the latter years of windmills in northern Europe.
Paintings of windmills from Hieronymus Bosch, Rembrandt, Jacob van Ruisdael, Thomas Girtin, and others.
As he sought deeper knowledge of nature by spiritual means, his paintings underwent radical change.
Famous for his distinctive paintings of straight lines and evenly-coloured rectangles, his early works rushed through the evolution achieved over more than a century, and were thoroughly representational.
With his fresh light style, he painted the country around Old Lyme, the Cornish art colony, and up into Vermont.
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