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Historic Landscapes and Ruins

A collection of oil paintings and watercolors showcasing historical landscapes, castles, ruins, and natural scenery with a focus on dramatic skies and architecture.

Landscape with Bathsheba, Jan van Scorel, c. 1540 - c. 1545
Landscape with Bathsheba, Jan van Scorel, c. 1540 - c. 1545
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Moonlit Night in Naples by Sil'vestr Fedoseevic Scedrin, 1828, 1791-1830, Russia, Ivanovo, Ivanovo Local Museum of Arts
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Mouth of the Mine, Ruhrort NearOberhaussen. Artist: Joseph Pennell, American, 1857-1926
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The Battle of Issus 1529 Albrecht Altdorfer (ca.1480-1538/German) Oil on Wood Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Germany
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Pieter Brueghel the Elder (1525-1569). Netherlandish painter. The Triumph of Death, 1562-1563. Detail. Prado Museum. Madrid. Spain.
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Targ in Buchara. From travel to Turkestan; Cie Ski, Jan (1858-1913); 1912 (1912-00-00-1912-00-00);State Art collections (Warsaw - 1922-1939) - collections, message (provenance)
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'China ...', c1920. Artist: Unknown.
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Portrait of a Surveyor (Andries van der Wal), Anonymous, 1650 - 1674 painting Portrait of the surveyor Andries van der Wal (dec. 1671), standing in a landscape with a measuring stick with two assistants. In the distance a village with a high church tower on a hill. In a matching frame with attributes of the surveyor profession. Northern Netherlands wood (plant material). oil paint (paint)  historical persons. geodesy, surveying
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Brudeferd i Hardanger / Bridal procession on the Hardangerfjord / Bridal journey in Hardanger. Date/Period: 1848. Painting. Oil on canvas. Height: 93.5 cm (36.8 in); Width: 130 cm (51.1 in). Author: Adolph Tidemand. HANS GUDE.
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Ball-Play of the Women - Sioux. Dated: 1861/1869. Dimensions: overall: 46.8 x 63.5 cm (18 7/16 x 25 in.). Medium: oil on card mounted on paperboard. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: George Catlin.
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The Boulevard d'Italia under the snow Emile Cagniart. The Boulevard d'Italia under the snow. Pastel.
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The Tower of Babel by Bruegel (Brueghel), Pieter, the Elder (ca 1525-1569)  Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam  c. 1565  The Netherlands  Oil on wood  Painting  Bible
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Stalin's Funeral by Krivonogov, Pyotr Alexandrovich (1911-1967) / State Museum- and exhibition Centre ROSIZO, Moscow / 1953 / Russia / Oil on canvas / History /
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Jean-Francois Millet; French; 1814-1875; Haystaks: Autonen; ca. 1874; Oil on canvas.
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Group of figures talking near the ruins of an arch at Petra. Coloured lithograph by Louis Haghe after David Roberts, 1849.
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The Burning of the Houses of Parliament, unknown artist, nineteenth century, Formerly Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775-1851, British, ca. 1834, Oil on panel, Support (PTG): 5 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches (14 x 19.1 cm), bridge (built work), brushstrokes, burning, city, dwellings, fire, houses, landscape, light, river, smoke, texture, water, City of Westminster, England, Europe, London, Thames, United Kingdom
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Burning of Old South Church, Bath, Maine. Dated: c. 1854. Dimensions: overall: 46.5 x 61.8 cm (18 5/16 x 24 5/16 in.) framed: 55.8 x 71.1 x 5 cm (21 15/16 x 28 x 1 15/16 in.). Medium: oil on canvas. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: John Hilling.
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Georges Roux. "Night party at the Universal Exhibition in 1889, under the Eiffel Tower". Oil on canvas. Paris, Carnavalet museum. 27030-15 Arrondissement VIIEME 7EME VII 7, Champ Mars, Military School, Universal Exhibition, Fete, Fountain illuminates, crowd, luminous, moon, night, industry palace, Eiffel Tour
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Colyhosney or Colghosney. Date/Period: 1843 - 1845. Graphic art. Watercolor. Height: 124 mm (4.88 in); Width: 179 mm (7.04 in). Author: Attributed to Samuel H. Owen.
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Engraving by British artist & engraver, William Hogarth 1697ñ1764: Tail-Piece, or The Bathos, 1764. Engraving
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'La Santa Salute, from San Giorgio, Venice', c1872. Artist: William Collingwood Smith.
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Samarkand by Vereshchagin, Vasili Vasilyevich (1842-1904) / State Museum of History and Art, Serpukhov / Russian Painting of 19th cen. / 1869-1870 / Russia / Oil on canvas / Landscape / 43x51
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The Last Days of Pompeii James Hamilton (American, 1819-1878). The Last Days of Pompeii, 1864. Oil on canvas, 59 15/16 x 48 1/16 in. (152.2 x 122 cm).  The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 C.E. and subsequent devastation of Pompeii (in present-day Italy) was a popular and fascinating narrative in the mid-eighteenth century, particularly among Romantic painters on both sides of the Atlantic. At that time the volcano began a sustained period of renewed activity. Simultaneously, archaeologists began excavations of the ancient buried city. This cataclysmic theme, which lends itself to ruminations on the cyclical nature of societies and civilizations, continued to appeal to artists in the mid-nineteenth century. American Art 1864
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The Miners', c1920. Artist: Jules Besson. Jules Besson (1868-c1930) was a French painter. He was a pupil of Alexandre Cabanel, Elie Delaunay, and Gustave Moreau at the Beaux-Arts.
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Nina Slobodka Berendeevka by Viktor Mikhaylovich Vasnetsov (1848 - 1926). Russian artist who specialized in mythological subjects. co-founder of Russian folklorist and romantic nationalistic painting. the Berendeevka tradition as one manifestation of Russian cultural identity that took hold of the national imagination near the turn of the twentieth century. The fairy-tale village Berendeevka emerged as the setting for A. Ostrovsky's play in verse The Snow Maiden (1873).
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Badisches Dorfmotiv; Irmann, Heinrich Otto (1849-1915); 1902 (1902-00-00-1902-00-00);
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Bodrov, Vladimir Stepanovich (*1924) State Central Artillery Museum, St. Petersburg 1956 69x95 Oil on canvas Soviet Art History
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Big hammer-head in the La Spezia arsenal, Liguria, Italy, watercolour by Achille Beltrame (1871-1945), Italian war ship, from L'Illustrazione Italiana 1899.
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Yu. P. Shchukin. Water holiday. 1933. The painting reproduces one of the episodes of the carnival on the Moscow River, during which there was a symbolic burning of effigies depicting all kinds of evil spirits.
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Inquisition. Bilińska-Bohdanowiczowa, Anna (1854-1893), female painter
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The feast of being supreme at the field of March on 20 Prairial An II (June 8, 1794) Thomas-Charles Naudet (1778-1810). The feast of the Supreme Being in the Champ de Mars, the Prairial An II (June 8, 1794): Statue of the people under the features of Hercules, the Char de Ceres trained by oxen. Watercolor, gouache and pastel on feather trait and lead . Paris, Carnavalet museum.
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Day's work is done , Sunrises & sunsets, Roads, Churches. Louis Prang & Company Collection
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Panoramic view of the 1867 universal exhibition Panoramic view of the 1867 universal exhibition . Oil on canvas.
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Panorama, Fire of Tuileries, May 24, 1871, Panorama, Fire of Tuileries, May 24, 1871 ". Lithograph Colorée and enhanced with varnish.
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Denon leading excavtaion;Egypt
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Central Europe, by Antonio Giovanni da Varese, 1575, Farnese Palace (Palazzo Farnese), Caprarola (Viterbo).
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François-Nicolas Quantle (1825-1901). "Truas besieging Notre-Dame de Paris". Paris, house of Victor Hugo. 33392-14 Assiege, cathedral, crowd, Notre-Dame, Notre-Dame de Paris, Scene Romance, Truand
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Άνατολικὴ ἄποψις στυλῶν Όλυμπίου Διὸς - Άθῆναι - Vue orientale des colonnes du Temple de Jupiter - Athènes , Greek temples, Forts & fortifications, Archaeological sites, Olympieion Athens, Greece. Nicholas Catsimpoolas Collection
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Painted image on the glass for Skiat icon / Later Magica. "Vierwaldstädter lake".
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Valencia, 03/19/2014. Last Mascletá of the Fallas. Photo: Mikel Ponce. Archdc.
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