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Rhein II is a colour photograph made by German visual artist Andreas Gursky in 1999. [2] In the image, a river (the Lower Rhine) flows horizontally across the field of view, between flat green fields, under an overcast sky. [3]
Danube landscape near Regensburg, by Albrecht Altdorfer A landscape etching by Albrecht Altdorfer. The Danube school or Donau school (German: Donauschule or Donaustil) was a circle of painters of the first third of the 16th century in Bavaria and Austria (mainly along the Danube valley). Many were also innovative printmakers, usually in etching.
He was a painter, etcher, architect, and engraver, and the leader of the Danube school of German art. As evidenced by such paintings as Saint George in the Forest (1510) and Allegory (1531), much of Altdorfer's work is characterised by an attachment to sprawling landscapes that dwarf the figures within them; [ 30 ] The Battle of Alexander at ...
In August I joined Viking River Cruise's Romantic Danube trip from Nuremberg to. Jess Moss, AOL Onion-domed churches, vineyards chiseled into hills, ancient castles and grand palaces: a river ...
Albrecht Altdorfer produced the very first pure landscapes in the history of European art. [1] Only five surviving landscape paintings are generally accepted to have been painted by Altdorfer. [2] Two of them, one in Munich (30.5 × 22.2 cm) and one in London (41.2 × 35.5 cm), were painted in oils on parchment glued on wood.
The Caves and Ice Age Art in the Swabian Jura are a collection of six caves in southern Germany which were used by Ice Age humans for shelter about 33,000 to 43,000 years ago. Within the caves were found the oldest non-stationary works of human art yet discovered, in the form of carved animal and humanoid figurines, in addition to the oldest ...
The sculpture is located near the city of Orșova, in Mehedinți County. It was made between 1994 and 2004, on a rocky outcrop on the river Danube, at the Iron Gates, which form the border between Romania and Serbia. The Dacian king's sculpture is the tallest rock relief in Europe, at 55 m (180 ft) in height and 25 m (82 ft) in width.
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