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Rhein II is a colour photograph made by German visual artist Andreas Gursky in 1999. [2] In the image, a river (the Lower Rhine) flows horizontally across the field of view, between flat green fields, under an overcast sky. [3]
Albrecht Altdorfer produced the very first pure landscapes in the history of European art. [1] Only five surviving landscape paintings are generally accepted to have been painted by Altdorfer. [2] Two of them, one in Munich (30.5 × 22.2 cm) and one in London (41.2 × 35.5 cm), were painted in oils on parchment glued on wood.
He was a painter, etcher, architect, and engraver, and the leader of the Danube school of German art. As evidenced by such paintings as Saint George in the Forest (1510) and Allegory (1531), much of Altdorfer's work is characterised by an attachment to sprawling landscapes that dwarf the figures within them; [ 30 ] The Battle of Alexander at ...
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Danube landscape near Regensburg, by Albrecht Altdorfer A landscape etching by Albrecht Altdorfer. The Danube school or Donau school (German: Donauschule or Donaustil) was a circle of painters of the first third of the 16th century in Bavaria and Austria (mainly along the Danube valley). Many were also innovative printmakers, usually in etching.
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Coastal South Carolina has been a staple in Abby Nurre’s life since the day she was born. In fact, she is a self proclaimed “loyal tourist” to Kiawah and has gone multiple times per year ...
During this time, early modern humans migrated into Europe, probably from the southeast along the Danube River, and settled in the easily accessible caves in the area. [16] There, they likely lived and worked in and around these caves. The caves also served as the repositories of the figurines which may have been used in a religious context.