A journey from the southern shore of Lake Geneva and Mont Blanc, travelling east to the Zugspitze, highest mountain in Germany.
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Artists who flocked to the Prado in Madrid often visited Granada, where the towers of the Alhambra rise to compete with the snowy peaks of the Sierra Nevada.
Mounts Fuji, Cotopaxi, Merapi, St Helens, and above all the most painted of all, Vesuvius during its violent eruptions.
Paintings of rugged mountains on the coast and lining deep fjords, from Peder Balke, Hans Gude, Eilert Normann, and others.
Paintings of Kangchenjunga and Everest, and sundry peaks of the Himalaya, by Edward Lear, Marianne North and Nicholas Roerich.
Following the footsteps of Alexander von Humboldt’s expedition of 1802, it was Frederic Edwin Church who painted this huge mountain range, and became famous as a result.
Bierstadt, who went west to the Rocky Mountains with surveyors, the former Surveyor General of New Zealand, and the greatest expeditionary botanical painter, Marianne North.
The Grand Tour traditionally took young gentry through the Alps, where they could buy paintings of its sublime peaks.
Burke’s sublime became attractive to some in the late 18th century. They took to the mountains, to record high peaks and narrow gorges in paintings. First of a new series.
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