Add Style to your Home with Artwork to Canvas
Everyone wants to make their homes look stylish and gorgeous. One of the newest and easiest ways of doing this is Artwork to canvas, which offers many different styles of art. You can select from a large collection of landscapes, impressionists, abstracts, and more, allowing you to find that look that is unique for you and fits with the rest of your home décor. Read the rest of this entry »
Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée, Claude Lorrain, France, 1600-1682)
Italian French by birth and training, Claude Lorrain is one of the great landscape painters of the Baroque, whose style inspired, directly or indirectly to other large landscape beyond, as the Dutch Van Goyen, Van Ruysdael, the French Corot and Rousseau, the Turner and Constable, British or even the early painters of the Hudson River School in America. Read the rest of this entry »
Danube Landscape near Regensburg
Head of the Danube School, Altdorfer is one of the first artists in the history of European painting to represent the pure landscape. We have seen in the earlier work of Joachim Patinir as the landscape was the bottom-with almost absolute prominence, but the bottom end of the day, a work of religious themes. In this work of Altdorfer, or in its oldest “Landscape with Bridge” at the National Gallery of London, the landscape is the sole basis and the protagonist of the painting. Read the rest of this entry »
Fresh Spring Painting
The site of Akrotiri, on the spectacular island of Santorini, is one of the jewels of the Minoan civilization. A volcanic eruption in the mid-second millennium BC buried the city, allowing some frescoes of exceptional importance to this day arrived in an excellent state of preservation. These include the so-called “fresh antelope,” the “cool boxers”, impressive “fresh from the boats,” and perhaps the most beautiful of them all, the “cool spring”. Read the rest of this entry »
The journey of the Emperor Ming Huang Shu
After the artists from the Six Dynasties (220-618 AD) and Xie or the already mentioned I Kaizhi Gu laid the foundation, the painters of the Tang Dynasty (618-907 AD) formed the first golden age of Chinese painting in which the landscape was a key element. Read the rest of this entry »