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"Early Snow on the River by Student Zhao Gan of the Southern Tang," [1] [2] Li Yu, the last ruler of the dynasty, before his demise by the hands of the Song dynasty , was a calligrapher and the patron of the arts, founded an art school that in addition to Zhao Gan, included contemporary painters such as Dong Yuan , Juran , and Xu Xi .
Swiss Mountain Scene (or Rocky Mountain Scene) 1859 Oil on canvas 60 cm × 85 cm (23.6 in × 33.5 in) Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University IAP 35010066: view: The Trout Brook: 1859: Oil on academy board: 23.2 cm × 29.8 cm (9.1 in × 11.7 in) Fogg Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA [2]: 335 IAP 20780420: Approaching Storm ...
Spring Fresco, Minoan painting from Akrotiri, 1600–1500 BCE Zhan Ziqian, Strolling About in Spring, a very early Chinese landscape, c. 600. The earliest forms of art around the world depict little that could really be called landscape, although ground-lines and sometimes indications of mountains, trees or other natural features are included.
The Rocky Mountains is an 1866 oil-on-canvas landscape painting by the German-American painter Albert Bierstadt, a painter of Westward Expansion scenes in the latter 19th century. Description [ edit ]
Albert Bierstadt (January 7, 1830 – February 18, 1902) was a German American painter best known for his lavish, sweeping landscapes of the American West.He joined several journeys of the Westward Expansion to paint the scenes.
Wang's only surviving work is a long scroll titled A Thousand Li of Rivers and Mountains (千里江山圖). [7] [8] The painting, finished by Wang when he was only 18 in 1113, has been described as one of the greatest works of Chinese art. [9] It is in the permanent collection of the Palace Museum in Beijing. [5] The scroll's size is 51.5 by ...
Morning, Looking East over the Hudson Valley from Catskill Mountains: 1848: Oil on canvas: 45.72 × 60.96 cm: Albany Institute of History and Art, New York West Rock, New Haven: 1849: Oil on canvas: 27 + 1 ⁄ 8 in × 40 + 1 ⁄ 8 in (690 mm × 1,020 mm) New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut [4] Mountain Landscape: 1849: Oil on canvas ...
Tree-clad hills pile up into blue-grey mountains in the background. The work was commissioned by banker and art collector Joachim Heinrich Wilhelm Wagener, together with a second painting Moonrise by the Sea (Mondaufgang am Meer) to create a pair of "times of the day", depicting morning and evening landscape scenes, in a tradition of Claude ...