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Claude Joseph Vernet was considered the leading French artist of his time in his genre, marine art and landscape painting.He came from a family of French painters: he was the son of a decorative painter, and his son Antoine-Charles-Horace Vernet, Carle Vernet (1758–1836), and his grandson Horace Vernet (1789–1863) were known as military painters.
In the painting, the medieval city is viewed looking east with the dark waters of Riddarfjärden in the foreground and the interior of the Stockholm archipelago in the background. Although the event depicted is said to have occurred in the morning, the city is painted in evening light.
He did not like the harsh lighting effects of the midday sun as it flattened the subject, but preferred early morning or mid to late afternoon and evening light. In conjunction with the 1988 centenary travelling exhibition held in Canada, Patrick Condon Laurette, the Curator of the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia , published a book in 1989 titled ...
The paintings of Four Times of the Day (clockwise from top left: Morning, Noon, Night, and Evening) Four Times of the Day is a series of four oil paintings by English artist William Hogarth. They were completed in 1736 and in 1738 were reproduced and published as a series of four engravings. They are humorous depictions of life in the streets ...
Port with the disembarkation of Cleopatra in Tarsus (1642), by Claude Lorrain, Musée du Louvre, Paris. Light in painting fulfills several objectives like, both plastic and aesthetic: on the one hand, it is a fundamental factor in the technical representation of the work, since its presence determines the vision of the projected image, as it affects certain values such as color, texture and ...
Evening (German - Der Abend) is an 1821 oil on canvas painting by Caspar David Friedrich, now in the Niedersächsischen Landesmuseum Hannover. With Morning , Midday and Afternoon , it forms a series on different times of day.
Runge's painting, The Morning, 1808, is considered to be his greatest work. [15] Morning, was intended to be installed as part of a series of religious murals titled Times of Day ; the four paintings were to be installed in a Gothic chapel accompanied by music and poetry, which Runge hoped would be a nucleus for a new religion.
Evening: Landscape with an Aqueduct is an 1818 landscape painting by the French artist Théodore Géricault. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It was one of three monumental landscapes showing various times of the day (a planned fourth was not produced).