yama-bato:

Josef Stoitzner

“Apple Tree”

aurosanlo:

Josef Stoitzner (1884–1951)

Salzburg Museum

lyghtmylife:

Camille Pissarro

[Caribbean-born French Pointillist/Impressionist Painter, ca.1830-1903]

A Village through the Trees, 1868 

oil on canvas

artmastered:

William Hodges, Tomb and Distant View of the Rajmahal Hills, c.1781

littlemissdee86:

Seaport with the Embarkation of the Queen of Sheba (1648)

Claude Lorrain

nickkahler:

Claude Lorrain, The Embarkation of the Queen of Sheba, 1648

straylettersfromthemoon:

— Claude Lorrain, Tobie et l’ange, 1663

heatherblossombrown:

A little inspiration for today… “The Enchanted Castle” by Claude Lorrain from 1664 depicting Psyche stranded on the cliff overlooking the castle of Cupid.

An excerpt from John Keats “Ode to a Nightingale” in which he references this piece -

‘You know the Enchanted Castle it doth stand
Upon a Rock on the border of a Lake
Nested in Trees, which all do seem to shake
From some old Magic like Urganda’s snow.

O Phoebus that I had thy sacred word
To shew this Castle in some dreaming wise
Unto my friend while sick and ill he lies …
You know it well enough, where it doth seem
A mossy place, a Merlin Hall, a dream …
See what is coming from the distance thin
A golden galley all in silken trim …
O that our dreamings all of sleep or wake
Would all their colours from the Sunset take
Rather than shadow our world’s daytime
Into the void of night . . ’

bonjourtableau:

Landscape with Apollo Guarding the Herds of Admetus and Mercury stealing them, 1645, Claude Lorrain, Doria Pamphilj Gallery

cavetocanvas:

Thomas Moran, The Grand Canyon of Yellowstone, 1872

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venusmilk:

Frithjof Tidemand Johannessen II

venusmilk:

Frithjof Tidemand Johannessen II

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mesbeauxarts:

Vincent van Gogh. Road with Cypress and Star. 1890.

Oil on canvas.

Kröller-Müller Museum. Otterlo, Netherlands.

artsyrabbits:

Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (1909) illustrated by Edmond Dulac

cavetocanvas:

John Constable, Wivenhoe Park, Essex, 1816

From the National Gallery of Art:

A pleasant sense of ease and harmony pervades this landscape of almost photographic clarity. The large areas of brilliant sunshine and cool shade, the rambling line of the fence, and the beautiful balance of trees, meadow, and river are evidence of the artist’s creative synthesis of the actual site. The precision of Constable’s brushwork, seen in the animals, birds, and people, lends importance to these smaller details.

Constable was a native of Suffolk, the county just north of Essex. His deep, consuming attachment to the landscape of this rural area is a constant factor in his works. His studies and sketchbooks reveal his complete absorption in the pictorial elements of his native countryside: the movement of cloud masses, the feel of the lowlands crossed by rivers and streams, and the dramatic play of light over all.

The commission for this painting came from Major General Francis Slater–Rebow, owner of Wivenhoe Park, who had been a close friend of Constable’s father and was the artist’s first important patron. This was not the first work Constable had done for the Rebows; in 1812 he had painted a full–length portrait of the couple’s daughter, then aged seven. She can be seen in this painting riding in a donkey cart at the left.