He is now almost forgotten, despite this being the 500th anniversary of his death. He was certainly an important influence on Raphael, and more.
landscape
More superb paintings of the coast of Maine, here by Childe Hassam, Robert Henri, and George Bellows.
Paintings of the spectacular coast of Maine, from Thomas Cole, Frederic Edwin Church, Winslow Homer, and others.
Two notable paintings about slavery, some genre scenes of travel, and a final expedition to South America.
Official artist to an expedition to Spitzbergen, he drew crowds at the Paris Salon of 1841 with his paintings of walrus fishing and the aurora.
The final few years of his life were highly productive. As well as superb religious works, some secular paintings have also survived.
A firm set up to provide scenery for the Vienna Opera also brought us two artists: Alphonse Mucha, and Georg Janny. The latter was a pioneer of fantastic or fantasy art.
America’s most promising and successful woman painter of the early twentieth century, with superb Post-Impressionist landscapes and portraits. Now all but forgotten.
More heartwarming paintings of this Mediterranean island, from Theodore Robinson, Paul von Spaun, and others.
Escape to the island of Capri, in the Bay of Naples, for a drop of sunshine in these superb paintings by Carl Blechen, Albert Bierstadt, and others.
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