An introduction to a new series tracing the history of the countryside in fine paintings. Explains why some English country lanes have so many twisting bends.
Millet
In seascapes with waves, and on land with the foliage of trees. Paintings by Turner, Courbet, Gainsborough, Monet, Winslow Homer and more.
Rolling countryside in the Downs of England, the Alban Hills near Rome, Normandy, Pontoise, the Jorat in Switzerland, and the rural Midwest.
First wife of Paris, Prince of Troy, abandoned so he could seduce Helen. When Paris needed her to heal him, she refused then was filled with remorse.
This is the time to get out and admire the blossom on the trees, with the aid of Samuel Palmer, Millais, Millet, Sisley, and above all Vincent van Gogh.
Associated with the countryside of northern Europe, hedges are the product of enclosures made in the 18th century.
One of few painters of the Barbizon School outside France, he painted portraits of the Boston Brahmins, an early baseball game, and Niagara Falls.
In landscapes by Rubens, Constable, Ford Madox Brown, Frederic Edwin Church, Millet, Pissarro, Breton, and Prendergast.
Carrying Caravaggio’s rotting fruit, bread from the cereal harvest, Vermeer’s milkmaid, fish, dirty washing, lambs, rocks and garlic.
Carrying infants, including Moses, figs with a few asps, the master’s dinner, Manet’s luncheon on the grass, snacks, banquets, and fruit.
