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Alexander Cozens (1717–1786) was a British landscape painter in watercolours, born in Russia, in Saint Petersburg. He taught drawing and wrote treatises on the subject, evolving a method in which imaginative drawings of landscapes could be worked up from abstract blots on paper. His son was the artist John Robert Cozens.
Landscape painting, also known as landscape art, is the depiction in painting of natural scenery such as mountains, valleys, rivers, trees, and forests, especially where the main subject is a wide view—with its elements arranged into a coherent composition. In other works, landscape backgrounds for figures can still form an important part of ...
Image Details Infernal Landscape. Type: Pen and brown ink Size: 25.9 x 19.7 cm Location: Private Collection Infernal Landscape previously thought to have been made by an assistant in the workshop of medieval Dutch artist Hieronymus Bosch has been authenticated as a piece by the master himself by the Bosch Research and Conservation Project (BRCP).
Signed with a monogram cut into the tree on the left: Landscape with a Footbridge [5] c. 1518 – c. 1520 [5] oil on vellum on wood [5] 41.2 × 35.5 cm [5] National Gallery, London [5] Inventory number: NG6320. [5] Signed with a monogram in the upper-right corner: Landscape with a Spruce [6] Landscape with Woodcutter [7] c. 1522 [6] [7]
The most important feature of a nilotic landscape is its riverine setting, which is the ultimate source of any accompanying plant and animal life. The annual flooding of the Nile river in Egypt was not only the source of the ancient civilization's food and crops, but also provided them with a dependable cyclical calendar. Much of Egypt's ...
Ancient Greek art has survived most successfully in the forms of sculpture and architecture, as well as in such minor arts as coin design, pottery, and gem engraving. The most prestigious form of Ancient Greek painting was panel painting , now known only from literary descriptions; they perished rapidly after the 4th century AD when they were ...
The findings, published in a series of articles in Current Archaeology, come from one of the largest ancient DNA projects in Europe involving 460 people who were buried in graves between 200AD and ...
Church also made vibrant sketches of the Olana landscape; he framed a few and hung them in the main residence. [8] In the studio at Olana he made hundreds of pencil and oil technical drawings for stencils, mantels, banisters, and other architectural elements of the main house. With the onset of rheumatism in the 1870s, Church's painting became ...