Tag: harbour

Castle Island (Boston)

Castle Island in Art: Hassam, Childe (1859-1935) Castle Island, Boston Harbor 1916 Los Angeles County Museum of Art, LA     See also: • Boston, MA (USA)

View of Delft (c.1660-1661)

Vermeer, Jan (1632-1675) View of Delft (Gezicht op Delft) c.1660–1661 Oil on canvas, 96.5 x 115.7 cm Mauritshuis, The Hague View of Delft today: This is the most famous cityscape of the Dutch seventeenth century. The interplay of light and shade,…

Two Chained Monkeys (1562)

Bruegel the Elder, Pieter (c.1525-1569) Two Chained Monkeys 1562 Oil on oak panel, 19.9 x 23.3 cm Gemäldegalerie, Berlin SHELFMARK / INSCRIPTION: Inscription lower left: • BRVEGEL • MDLXII • This unusual picture dates from the year 1562, shortly before Bruegel…

Dido building Carthage (1815)

Turner, Joseph Mallord William (1775-1851) Dido building Carthage 1815 Oil on canvas, 155.5 x 230 cm National Gallery, London Turner’s painting is based on the English seventeenth-century author and poet John Dryden’s translation of the Aeneid, the monumental Latin poem written by…