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The Shortening Winter's Day is near a Close; Skaters in the Bois de Boulogne; Sledging on the Neva; Snow at Argenteuil; Snow Storm: Hannibal and his Army Crossing the Alps; Snow Storm: Steam-Boat off a Harbour's Mouth; A Sorcerer Comes to a Peasant Wedding; Stalingrad (painting) Stetind in Fog; Suvorov crossing the Alps
Early European painters generally did not depict snow since most of their paintings were of religious subjects. The first artistic representations of snow came in the 15th and 16th centuries. [1] Because frequent snowfall is a part of winter in northern European countries, depiction of snow in Europe began first in the northern European ...
Scilla section Chionodoxa, known as glory-of-the-snow, is a small group of bulbous perennial flowering plants in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Scilloideae. Formerly treated as the separate genus Chionodoxa , they are now included in Scilla as a section.
The prime version of The Shortening Winter's Day is near a Close (Lady Lever Art Gallery) was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1903. [7]The 82 x 120 cm version does not have a definitive date it was painted, but it is probable it was soon after the exhibition of 1903 and likely to have been painted to satisfy a patron that had been disappointed not to be able to purchase the exhibited ...
First Snow at Veneux-Nadon: 1878 49.2 x 65.2 National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Resting by a Stream at the Edge of the Wood: 1878 73.5 x 80.5 Musée d'Orsay, Paris Overpass at Sevres: 1879 37.9 x 55.5 Pola Museum of Art: Mooring Lines, the Effect of Snow at Saint-Cloud: 1879 37.5 x 45.7 Philadelphia Museum of Art
Sarcodes is the monotypic genus of a north-west American flowering springtime plant in the heath family , containing the single species Sarcodes sanguinea, commonly called the snow plant or snow flower. It is a parasitic plant that derives sustenance and nutrients from mycorrhizal fungi that attach to tree roots.
'Blue flowers/patterns') covers a wide range of white pottery and porcelain decorated under the glaze with a blue pigment, generally cobalt oxide. The decoration was commonly applied by hand, originally by brush painting, but nowadays by stencilling or by transfer-printing , though other methods of application have also been used.
The flowers are produced in a loose pyramidal raceme, with 2–3 flowers per stem, which face upwards. Each flower is up to 3.5 cm across. The base of each tepal is white (as are the stamen filaments), producing a white 'eye'. The outer part of the tepals is violet-blue.