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There were a few especially cold winters in the 16th and 17th century. Some of the evidence comes from paintings. In 1565 Pieter Bruegel painted hungry hunters returning to their frozen village. Ponds and canals were frozen. Painting winter’s snow … Continued
Ships and Harbors promise the mystery of travel; the journey begins and ends with arrivals and departures. Harbors are transient world. Peril, business and adventure cohabit on board. We have pictured harbors and ships since antiquity. By the early Renaissance … Continued
Claude Lorrain introduced the glowing obscuring effects of atmospheric perspective in the 1600s. From the 1628 to 1668 we can trace Claude’s further development of atmospheric effects (see examples 1 and 2). J.M.W Turner was enchanted by Claude’s compositions and … Continued
Hudson River Painters of the mid 1800s, like Sanford Gifford explained their work as poetic responses to the American landscape, not factual transcriptions. While artists like Sanford traveled far exploring both American and Italian landscape motifs they often found adventure … Continued
J.M.W. jumps to mind when we think of artists investing motion and energy in rendering architecture. This investment provides an image which suggests more volume, atmosphere, and noise which comes at the expense of stolid measured accuracy. I side with … Continued
Have you seen Pieter Bruegel’s painting of winter, “Hunters in the Snow” from 1565? It’s an early European depiction of winter. Persian and Chinese landscape painters had pictured winter even earlier. By the late 19th century Impressionists from Claude Monet … Continued