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Mt. Juliet [6] (also referred to as Mount Juliet) is a city located in western Wilson County, Tennessee, United States. A suburb of Nashville, it is approximately 17 miles (27 km) east of downtown Nashville. Mt. Juliet is located mostly between two major national east-west routes, Interstate 40 and U.S. Route 70.
Work (1852–1865) is a painting by Ford Madox Brown that is generally considered to be his most important achievement. It exists in two versions. The painting attempts to portray, both literally and analytically, the totality of the Victorian social system and the transition from a rural to an urban economy. Brown began the painting in 1852 ...
In this technique a water based paint, without binder, is applied to wet lime plaster which binds the paint into the surface of the plaster when it dries, making for an extremely durable painting. Wet plaster is applied to the wall in the right amount needed for each day's work. [2] That amount is the giornata. Generally the plaster is applied ...
Mt. Baker from the Fraser River (or Mt. Baker from Skyline Divide; or Mt. Rainier from the Southeast; or Three Sisters) 1890? Oil on paper: 43.2 cm × 48.3 cm (17 in × 19 in) IAP 67530201: view: Mt. Baker, Washington, from the Frazier River (or Encampment in the Rockies) 1890: Oil on paper mounted to canvas: 36.2 cm × 49.8 cm (14.3 in × 19.6 in)
The overall dimensions of the undated oil on canvas painting are 163 by 328 centimetres (64 by 129 in). [7] Based on Giovanni Boccaccio's [8] The Decameron, the painting depicts a scene from the first tale of day five; Iphigenia is sleeping in the woods and Cymon, a young nobleman, stands gazing at her beauty which fills him with inspiration. [9]
The painting is 70 inches high and 95 wide [4] and shows Wright's famed skill with nocturnal and candlelit scenes. It depicts the moment in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet at which Juliet, kneeling beside Romeo's body, hears a footstep and draws Romeo's dagger.
John Frederick Kensett (March 22, 1816 – December 14, 1872) was an American landscape painter and engraver born in Cheshire, Connecticut.He was a member of the second generation of the Hudson River School of artists.
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.