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The Burney Relief (also known as the Queen of the Night relief) is a Mesopotamian terracotta plaque in high relief of the Isin-Larsa period or Old-Babylonian period, depicting a winged, nude, goddess-like figure with bird's talons, flanked by owls, and perched upon two lions. Side view showing depth of the relief
Winter (Purvītis) Winter 1946; Winter at the Sognefjord; Winter in Union Square; Winter Landscape near Haarlem; Winter Landscape with a Bird Trap; Winter Landscape with Skaters; Winter Night in the Mountains; A Winter Scene with Skaters near a Castle; Winter View of the Hekelveld in Amsterdam
He began work on the oil painting held by the National Gallery in 1911, and completed the work in the winter of 1913–1914. It measures 160 cm × 180.5 cm (63.0 in × 71.1 in). Sohlberg later continued to use the image in other media, such as colour lithography.
The landscape itself is a flat-bottomed valley (a river meanders through it) with jagged peaks visible on the far side. A watermill is seen with its wheel frozen stiff. In the distance, figures ice skate , play bandy / ice hockey (before they became organized sports), kolf , and play eisstock [ 4 ] ("ice-stick", similar to curling ) on a frozen ...
These climactic events played a great part in the development of a new art genre, the winter landscape. [6] In the late 18th century, the growing Romantic movement intensified interest in landscape painting, including winter landscapes. Practitioners included the German artist Caspar David Friedrich, who depicted remote and wild landscapes ...
Moonlit Landscape with a View of the New Amstel River and Castle Kostverloren (1647-49); Oil on wood; 57.5 × 89.9 cm, Getty Center. Aert van der Neer, or Aernout or Artus (c. 1603 – 9 November 1677), was a landscape painter of the Dutch Golden Age, who specialized in small night scenes lit only by moonlight and fires, and snowy winter landscapes, both often looking down a canal or river.
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Gilgai is also used to refer to the overall micro-relief in such areas, consisting of mounds and depressions. The name comes from an Australian Aboriginal word meaning small water hole. [ 1 ] The pools are commonly a few metres across and less than 30 cm (12 in) deep but, in some instances, they may be several metres deep and up to 100 m (330 ...