Landscape painting: Quick Facts

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van de Velde, Adriaen: River Landscape in the Late Afternoon

Painting by Giorgione showing Mary, Joseph, and baby Jesus in a stable with two shepherds kneeling in adoration, set in a rocky landscape with trees and distant buildings.

Claude Lorrain: Pastoral Landscape with a Mill

Ruisdael, Jacob van: Waterfall with Bentheim Castle Beyond, Travellers on a Footbridge Nearby

Oil painting The Travelers by Meindert Hobbema shows a wooded landscape with a path, travelers on horseback, dogs, and a watermill building beside a pond under a partly cloudy sky.

Oil painting by Aelbert Cuyp showing herdsmen on horseback and standing beside cows, with some cattle lying on a hillside overlooking a broad landscape under a cloudy sky.

Watteau, Antoine: Fêtes Vénitiennes

Cozens, John Robert: Lake Nemi, Looking Towards Genzano

Painting by John Constable showing Salisbury Cathedral with its tall spire rising above trees and open green fields, under a dramatic sky, viewed from Lower Marsh Close.

J.M.W. Turner: The Lauerzersee with Schwyz and the Mythen, Switzerland

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Detail of the Chrysler Building, New York City, New York (photographed in 2007).

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