A tough compositional challenge: a square that isn’t even rectangular, with unequal sides and a high tower. Solutions by Canaletto and other masters.
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The story of Odysseus meeting Nausicaä has been a major influence in Western narrative. How has it been shown in paintings?
Study 25 landscapes by 19 artists over 400 years, to examine how they represent the landscape.
An illustrated index of the 61 artists covered in this series, with links to detailed coverage.
There are several Russian (and Ukrainian) painters who have been claimed to have had impressionist styles, usually for a period in the late nineteenth century. Here are two of the greatest of them.
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