Casper David Friedrich, The Monk By the Sea , 1810 "No situation in the world could be more sad and eerie than this—as the only spa...

Jan Vermeer's View of Delft (1660-1661) may just be a perfect landscape painting. Once you've really looked at it, you realize ...

Aspiring artists often imitate an admired artist’s style. It's a great way to learn to paint and permanently  adds to one’s store of ava...

Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, Peasant Boy at a Market (l), Peasant Girl Catching a Flea (r). c. 1715. These two caught my eye at B...

Evening landscape by George Innes, 1890, produced by glazing. In his biography of his father, American landscape painter George Inness, ...

Albert Bierstadt's large (10 feet by 15 feet) landscape The Domes of Yosemite ( 1867) is permanently housed in a gallery that had to b...

Twisted! Thomas Cole's painting (right) c. 1850, is very similar in composition to that of Claude's, c. 1650, (left). They'r...