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Check out this fantastic collection of Historical Painting wallpapers, with 51 Historical Painting background images for your desktop, phone or tablet.
- Fan Kuan, Travelers Among Mountains and Streams, Northern Song Dynasty, C. 1000
- Gio Xi, Early Spring, Signed and dated 1072
- Giorgione, The Tempest, C. 1505
- Pieter Bruegel The Elder, The Hunters in The Snow, 1565
- Annibale Carracci,Fishing, Before 1596
- El Greco, View of Toledo, C. 1596–1600
- Claude Lorrain, Pastoral Landscape, C. 1639
- Nicolas Poussin, Spring (The Earthly Paradise), 1660–1664
- Caspar David Friedrich, Wanderer Above The Sea of Fog, C. 1817
- John Constable, The Hay Wain, 1821
Created on a seven-foot-long hanging scroll, Fan Kuan's work Travelers Among Mountains and Streams is one of the most influential examples of early Chinese landscape paintingand representative of the Northern Song school. It features a three-plan perspective of near, middle, and far that is typical of art from this time. Although there are human fi...
Originally from the Henan province, Chinese artist Guo Xi was another influential landscape painter. Early Springis one of his most renowned paintings, which exhibits the artist's aptitude for incorporating multiple perspectives within one composition.
Giorgione was one of the pioneering artists of the Venetian School of painting and The Tempest remains one of his most beloved and ambiguous works of art. In the right foreground, it features an anonymous woman breastfeeding her baby and a soldier carrying a long staff standing on the left. Here, the verdant landscape is not merely decorative, but ...
Pieter Bruegel the Elder was one of the leading artists of the Northern Renaissance. His painting The Hunters in the Snowwas part of a series dedicated to portraying different times of the year. This work depicted a scene in the winter, in which a pair of hunters lead their dogs through the snowy landscape. While the figures are tucked into the lef...
Baroque artist Annibale Carracci was a well-rounded Italian painter who is often compared to his rebellious contemporary, Caravaggio. The large landscape Fishing, which was meant to be displayed with another piece entitled Hunting, was given as gifts to the king of France by Carracci's patron Camillo Pamphili. These works display a deep interest in...
Grounded between the Late Renaissance and the emerging Mannerist art movement is the coveted work of El Greco. His uniquely radical style left a lasting impact on the course of art history. Most notably among his oeuvre is his painting View of Toledo, which is one of two surviving landscapes by the Greek artist. It features a striking blue-black sk...
Baroque painter Claude Lorrain is known for his idyllic portrayals of allegorical scenes rooted in either the Bible or in classical mythology. Pastoral Landscape is a work that aptly conveys this interest, featuring a soft-focused portrayal of the countryside with livestock, a shepherd, and classical architecture on the distant horizon.
Working from Rome, French-born painter Nicolas Poussin created exquisite paintings typical of the classical Baroque style. The Springis part of a series depicting the four seasons and features a lush wooded landscape, in which Adam and Eve are sitting on the grass.
A key work from German Romantic artist Caspar David Friedrich, Wanderer Above the Sea of Fogconveys the awe-inspiring and sublime characteristics of nature. Through the thick fog, jagged cliffs and rocky mountains topped with trees emerge in the distance. While a figure is featured in the center of the canvas, his back is to the viewer, redirecting...
British painter John Constable rejected the highly idealized landscapes of the period and instead favored realistic depictions of the natural world. In his 1821 painting The Hay Wain, Constable depicts Flatford Mill, an area of land owned by his father, Golding Constable. Constable said of the landscape, “I associate ‘my careless boyhood’ with all ...
See how artists and scientists view the natural world through more than 100 images from the Museum's collection in the Images of Nature gallery. Historic prints, watercolours and paintings spanning 350 years are displayed alongside modern images created by scientists, imaging specialists, photographers and micro-CT scanners.
Check out this fantastic collection of Art History Desktop wallpapers, with 55 Art History Desktop background images for your desktop, phone or tablet.
Tons of awesome art history wallpapers to download for free. You can also upload and share your favorite art history wallpapers. HD wallpapers and background images.
The art is coming to you, in ultra-high resolution, gigapixel images from Google Cultural Institute. See extraordinary levels of detail in famous works of art like Vermeer’s Girl with the Pearl Earring and Van Gogh’s Starry Night .
Check out this fantastic collection of History 4K wallpapers, with 46 History 4K background images for your desktop, phone or tablet.
