The final few years of his life were highly productive. As well as superb religious works, some secular paintings have also survived.
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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.
When he returned to painting in 1504, he was quick to incorporate the latest developments such as sfumato, and enhanced his landscapes from real life.
At the end of the nineteenth century, Cornwall and its marvellous coast was within easy reach of London, […]
Until 1867, Cornwall was days away from London, but its coast was painted by De Wint, JMW Turner, and Samuel Palmer.
He started sailing to Labrador and Greenland, and became a passionate painter of the Arctic coast and seas. One work was commissioned by Queen Victoria.
Like no other place on earth, it has volcanoes, glaciers, waterfalls, and steppe. Here are some of the earliest and best paintings of this remarkable land.
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