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Early European painters generally did not depict snow since most of their paintings were of religious subjects. The first artistic representations of snow came in the 15th and 16th centuries. [1] Because frequent snowfall is a part of winter in northern European countries, depiction of snow in Europe began first in the northern European ...
Self portrait (1882) Joseph Farquharson DL RA (4 May 1846 – 15 April 1935) was a Scottish painter, chiefly of landscapes in Scotland often including animals. He is most famous for his snowy winter landscapes, often featuring sheep and often depicting dawn or dusk.
The Shortening Winter's Day is near a Close; Skaters in the Bois de Boulogne; Sledging on the Neva; Snow at Argenteuil; Snow Storm: Hannibal and his Army Crossing the Alps; Snow Storm: Steam-Boat off a Harbour's Mouth; A Sorcerer Comes to a Peasant Wedding; Stalingrad (painting) Stetind in Fog; Suvorov crossing the Alps
The Effect of Snow at Argenteuil: 1874 Private collection The Road to Saint Germain, near Marly: 1875 46 x 55 Foundation E.G. Bührle, Zürich A Road in Seine and Marne: 1875 46 x 61 The Terrace at Saint Germain, Spring: 1875 73.66 x 99.06 Walters Art Museum, Baltimore Fete Day at Marly le Roi (14 July at Marly, France) 1875 52.5 x 72.3
Monet settled in Giverny in 1883. Most of his paintings from 1883 until his death 40 years later were of scenes within 3 kilometres (2 mi) of his home and gardens.Monet was intensely aware of and fascinated by the visual nuances of the region's landscape and by the endless variations in the days and in the seasons—the stacks were just outside his door.
Piss Flowers is an artwork created by British artist, Helen Chadwick between 1991 and 1992. It is a group of twelve sculptures that Chadwick created during a residency at the Banff Centre for the arts in Alberta , Canada , in February 1991.
Sarcodes is the monotypic genus of a north-west American flowering springtime plant in the heath family , containing the single species Sarcodes sanguinea, commonly called the snow plant or snow flower. It is a parasitic plant that derives sustenance and nutrients from mycorrhizal fungi that attach to tree roots.
Each bulb produces two leaves, up to 8 cm long and 2 cm wide, and at most one flowering stem, up to 10 cm long. The flowers are produced in a loose pyramidal raceme, with 2–3 flowers per stem, which face upwards. Each flower is up to 3.5 cm across. The base of each tepal is white (as are the stamen filaments), producing a white 'eye'. The ...