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From world view to panorama: 2 Popular panoramas

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A World View with a high aspect ratio, they came to dominate in the latter half of the 19th century, some being major commercial attractions. Now ubiquitous.

February 7, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Amsterdam for Real: Paintings of George Breitner 1

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In 1882, he painted with Vincent van Gogh in The Hague. A Naturalist without realist style, he showed street life as it was, and loved Japonism too.

February 27, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Coast: To the lighthouse

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Lighthouses in the paintings of JMW Turner, Constable, Monet, Signac, Peder Balke, and others, from England to Turkey.

September 21, 2017 General, Life, Painting

Coast: Flatlands

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Many coasts are flat – a challenge to painters from the Netherlands and Belgium in particular. Here masters from the Golden Age, the Hague School, and others take on this challenge.

September 7, 2017 General, Painting

Landscape Visions: 4 Breath-taking panoramas

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No matter how old and jaded you get, you can always appreciate the breath-taking view from the top of a hill, as the earth sweeps out in myriad details, as far as the distant horizon.

July 26, 2015 Painting

Beyond the French Impressionists: 8 The Netherlands, Jongkind

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If anyone led Impressionism during the 1860s and early 1870s, it was surely Jongkind.

May 19, 2015 Painting
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