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Bliss, originally titled Bucolic Green Hills, is the default wallpaper of Microsoft's Windows XP operating system. It is a photograph of a green rolling hills and daytime sky with cirrus clouds . Charles O'Rear , a former National Geographic photographer, took the photo in January 1998 near the Napa – Sonoma county line, California, after a ...
Landscape of Zhangye National Geopark Zhangye Danxia is known for the unusual colors of the rocks, which are smooth, sharp, and several hundred meters tall. They are the result of deposits of sandstone and other minerals that occurred over 24 million years.
Mountain Landscape with Rainbow (German: Gebirgslandschaft mit Regenbogen), is an oil painting by the German Romantic artist Caspar David Friedrich, from 1809-1810.Depicting a traveler who has stopped to view a mountainous landscape with a rainbow shining above, the painting was inspired by Friedrich's travels through Germany and along the shores of the Baltic Sea in 1809.
Mountain Landscape is believed to have been created back in the studio sometime between 1849 and 1850 [3] based on Church's memories of his time in Vermont. [2] It was alternatively titled Sunset—West Rock, New Haven , [ 4 ] as it was thought to depict West Rock, New Haven , an idea which was later discounted.
In the background, there stands a mountain peak virtually melting into the sky. In the foreground, on the bottom right, four horsemen and a dog are running from a bridge down a mountain trail. The leading horseman is blowing his horn. The painting is part of a series housed at the Louvre, including two other paintings by de Momper.
Thomas Hill (1829–1908) Mount Lafayette in Winter 1870. White Mountain art is the body of work created during the 19th century by over four hundred artists who painted landscape scenes of the White Mountains of New Hampshire in order to promote the region and, consequently, sell their works of art.
His observations culminated in a painting that depicts the sun rising over the mountains at dawn with a few notable figures and symbols. Image of the Riesengebirge Mountains. In the painting, a woman helps a man go up the mountain, and they are advancing towards a man crucified on a cross, presumably Jesus Christ. According to Werner Hoffman ...
Among the Sierra Nevada was created in Rome in winter 1867–68, four years after Bierstadt's trip to the Sierra Nevada. [4] [5] The painting measures 72 by 120 + 1 ⁄ 8 inches (183 by 305 cm) and has an elaborate frame measuring 96 + 1 ⁄ 4 by 144 + 3 ⁄ 8 by 7 + 1 ⁄ 4 inches (244 by 367 by 18 cm).