Constantin Hansen Paintings in GeoCodedArt

Constantin Hansen (1804-1880) painted vivid scenes of what he saw in Italy, and seemed particularly attracted to atmosphere that differed from his native Scandinavia (though he also captured scenes in the company of his countrymen).
His paintings of locations, especially ancient monuments, are marked by a lack of human involvement in the scenes; his interest seemed to be strictly in the elegance of the lines, and how they contrasted with the ill-defined edges of natural materials.

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The Arch of Septimius Severus and the Temple of Concord
by Constantin Hansen

Jacob Philipp Hackert Paintings Geocoded

Jacob Philipp Hackert (1737-1807) focused on natural, if idealized, outdoor settings;  he gave little attention to newer or ancient monuments around him as he moved about Italy.  Foliage was always a prominent feature, with a few figures included for perspective but not an effort to reflect societal life.  His scenes consistently reflected calm that could be gained by encountering nature: the tress arc gracefully, skies are fair, and water surfaces are pleasing.

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View of Montesarchio
by Jacob Phillip Hackert

Paintings of Naples in GeocodedArt

The climate, culture,and dramatic, if ominous terrain, has long charmed visitors to this  city.  See it from every angle that painters have used to try to capture it, and its varied moods.  The whole of the Bay has inspired efforts to visually capture the atmosphere

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Naples. View of the Darsena delle Galere
by Gaspar van Wittel

George Loring Brown Paintings in Italy

George Loring Brown (1814-1889) works have more of a look of a memory than a current field of view.  This is especially true in long view panoramas in Italy,  less so in paintings of his native New England: (though his White Mountain paintings all have just a perfect amount of fall color for accent).
The paintings in Italy evoke more of a collective memory than just his own: the glory that once was, and a reflection on what is lasting.  His views generally did not include any humans: maybe he regarded them as transitory also.

George Loring Brown paintings geocoded

View of the Temple of Peace in the Roman Forum
by George Loring Brown

Carl Rottmann Paintings Geocoded

Carl Rottmann (1798-1852) did numerous large scale works depicting heroic scenes of ancient times in Greece and southern Italy.  His view were expansive vistas with far horizons with scant evidence of current human habitation.  The wide open skies were perhaps a spur to the imagination of the viewer to contemplate what previously occurred on seemingly unchanging terrain.  In that they are not shown to be sites of activity today, they viewer could further suppose that they sites of the most important of contemporary human activities have moved from those sites.

Carl Rottman paintings geocoded

Island of Delos
by Carl Rottmann

Paintings of Taormina in Geocoded Art

Many artists have been attracted to, and felt moved to capture on canvas, the stunning sites of the ruins on Sicily.  Its dramatic setting, perched above the sea in the first range of cliffs in the northeast of the island, was an appropriate place for the drama performed in the theater.  The skeleton of that theater was most often the subject of the painters, as they tried to evoke the long-silences voices.

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Greek Theater at Taormina
by William Stanley Haseltine

Thomas Patch Paintings in GeocodedArt.com

Thomas Patch (1725-1782) painted pleasing scenes in and around Florence; they appear to be suitable for decorating the sorts of interiors that he painted more numerously (along with many figure studies of his social circle).    

The views that he painted were done with a slightly different perspective than what was commonly painted by others: looking at a bridge from a different direction, or from a greater distance. 

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A view of the Arno, Florence, from the Cascine Gardens
by Thomas Patch

Twenty Artists' Paintings of Tivoli Geocoded

For thousands of years, the natural drama of the waterfalls of the River Aniene have drawn visitors, builders of dream homes, and those seeking spiritual connections.  Landscape painters have followed in large numbers, vying to capture the phenomenon of falling water or to capture the atmosphere of a unique place.   The terrain affords the wealthy builder of villas a chance to creates naturally powered fountains and scenic pools that make their get-away dwelling a refreshing relief from the hot house that is Rome.

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Tivoli 

by Francois-Marius Granet

Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg Paintings in GeoCodedArt

Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg (1783-1853) painted architecturally specific views of sites in Rome just as he saw them, and included just as much detail on the people moving past his locations, whatever their state of decay.  Most of his works have a crystal clear light more common to his native Denmark, rather than the golden glow that is associated with Rome.
For an artist whose renderings of buildings had the precision of a draftsman, he did as many fine works capturing human forms in a wide range of natural states;  most are not in formal poses though portraits are also part of his varied catalog.  In later years, and on return to northern climates, he did a number of marine works, again faithfully detailing the features of large ships that were essential to their good function.

Eckersberg paintings Geocoded

The Stairs to the Santa Maria in Aracoeli in Rome
by Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg

Franz Ludwig Catel Paintings in Geocoded Art

Franz Ludwig Catel (1778–1856) painted scenes in Rome and southern Italy that have a sentimental fondness for a land warmed by the sun, where life is lived at a pace that is not likely to wear one out.  His views are overwhelmingly in brown and yellow tones, as if every site he visited is stuck on yellowing pages of past glory.  The way of life is a prominent feature in these works, not just natural beauty, nor the imposing architecture. They contribute to what makes a scene worth memorializing, but the way one spends their time while there, and the way it feels to be under the warm Italian sun, make for a more charming reflection.

Franz Catel paintings geocoded

View of Amalfi from the Gulf of Salerno
by Franz Ludwig Catel 

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Thomas Jones Paintings Geocoded

Thomas Jones (1743-1803) painted dramatic nature scenes in his native Wales before rendering a series of works in the south of Italy.  There his choice of subjects might be characterized as views that are  "off the beaten track".  Each of his works around Naples is named with detail as to its location, but the views are unexpected ones, with buildings partially obscured, lacking the majestic profiles of the famous landmarks. They have a freshness, though, that permits the viewer to get a strong sense of being there, and getting the feeling that travelers often experience: looking more at the side of a building than one might like, and wondering if a better view might be possible.

Thomas Jones Paintings in Geocoded Art

Buildings in Naples with the North-East side of the Castle Nuovoby Thomas Jones

Paintings of Moscow Geocoded

Paintings of Moscow

Thirty paintings in and around "Holy Moscow" reveal the deep reverence with which the people hold the ancient capital of their civic and religious life.  There are no ordinary scenes in Moscow.

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Saint Petersburg Paintings in Geocoded Art

Saint Petersburg paintings

Forty paintings by a dozen artists showing the majesty of the Imperial creation, and the mystery of the city that invented itself.

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Semyon Fiodorovich Shchedrin Paintings in GeocodedArt

Tsarskoe Selo Park

Painting by Semyon Fiodorovich Shchedrin (1745-1804) 

The elder of the painting Shchedrins (uncle of Silvestr), he painted royal locations, but it seems without intent to overawe the viewer with the prerogative and power that attaches to these locations.  These look like sites that any person would enjoy, with far more natural effects than with architectural bravado.

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Silvestr Shchedrin Paintings in Geocoded Art

New Rome With The Castel Sant Angelo

Painting by Silvestr Shchedrin (1791-1830) 

Nephew of Semyon, the younger Shchedrin did very evocative paintings in Italy that hold up today for their "now-ness".  The atmosphere, the sound of waves, every sense of the place is conveyed through careful inclusion of detail, realistic lighting and color, and with iconic subjects in the background that are instantly familiar

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Ivan Constantinovich Aivazovsky Paintings in GeoCodedArt

Sebastopol

Painting by Ivan Constantinovich Aivazovsky (1817-1900). One of the foremost marine and seascapes painters in history, Aivozovsky worked in many countries, and liked to incorporate mountainous views into the scenes.  As capable as any of capturing the drama of a turbulent sea, he more often showed a tranquil sea that brings on a mood of reflection.  Dramatic lighting, dominated by sun or moon, with almost Turner-like intensity, was a specialty of his coastal paintings, but not always present, as in the example below.

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Aleksey Petrovich Bogolyubov Paintings in GeoCodedArt

Painting by Aleksey Petrovich Bogolyubov (1824-1896)  This highly prolific artist painted hundreds of outdoor scenes, covering a wide variety of countries, styles, and subject matter.  

His earliest works were maritime and detailed many of Russia's naval battles of the time.  Of his many, many works capturing city and nature, he. more than almost any other artist who captured the world around us, titled his works by the location shown in the image.  Most other landscape artists are not as consistent, or less specific, in naming the location, but for Bogolyubov (or Bogoliubov) it is much more the rule than the exception. This is true even when to all appearances the work might be any river bank, just as likely in Normandy as on the Neva.  But the artist was usually very specific about the location, even painting the title onto the work.

Aleksey Bogolyubov Paintings Geococded

Easter Procession in Yaroslavl

Alexei Gornostayev Paintings in Geocoded Art

Palace in Pavlovsk

Painting by Alexei Gornostayev (1808-1862).  His elegant works show all of the refinement that the royals wanted their structures to evoke,  There are some foreground figures in each work, but not to distract from the overall effect the correctness of royal prerogative in how it ordered life around it.  The sites which he painted were those that were far from the centers of power, though: a yet more controlled, if artificial, world.

Alexei Gornostayev paintings geocoded

Ludwig FK Bohnstedt Paintings Geocded

Nevsky Prospekt by Anichkov Bridge

Painting by Ludwig Franz Karl Bohnstedt (1822-1885) The architect's training comes through in the precise, draftmen-like lines on the buildings, but with a warm touch for the street life that goes on in the foreground.  He painted in St. Petersburg and in Italy, and in each has a different feel for the pace of life.  His figures are very natural in their poses, and are believably in motion.

Ludwig Bohnstedt Paintings geocoded

Maxim Vorobiev Paintings geocoded

View of the Kremlin (by the Stone Bridge)

Painting by Maxim Vorobiev (1787-1855) 

Very few of the Russian landscapes painters did work in a wider variety of settings and locales; It may be this time spent capturing many other scenes, atmospheres, and aesthetics adds extra depth to his depictions of the great landmarks of Moscow and Petersburg.  These he shows with more affection than other painters whose goal was to convey the appropriate awe in the face of majesty. Vorobiev shows them as places you really might want to visit.

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Alexei Savrasov Paintings in GeocodedArt

Moscow Kremlin, Cathedral Square

Painting by Alexei Savrasov (1830-1897) Though he painted at some of the seats of power in the city center, this work is typical of many he did also in the countryside of having a tragic quality: moody lighting, mystery lurking in the corners: clearly more to the story than meets the eye.

Alexei Savrasov (1830-1897) Paintings

Fedor Yakovlevich Alekseev Paintings in GeoCoded Art

A View of the Moscow Kremlin and the Kamenny Bridge

Painting by Fedor Yakovlevich Alekseev (1753-1824). His works on the principal sights in Moscow reflect an official sanction to document symbols of power and their proper place in the world.  He did also work in Crimea, where his images have a little more feel for what it was like to stand where he was on a particular day, when the breeze had a particular feel.

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Benjamin Paterssen Paintings in Geocoded Art

View of the Tauride Palace from the Garden

Painting by Benjamin Paterssen (1750-1815).  This artist a series of paintings of the architectural highlights of Petersburg.  Their lack of emotional content says something about their era and purpose: the construction of a great city, on a rational plan, was the ideal to be celebrated. A common feature (not present in this work) is the edge of a monumental building framing the image as a whole, providing context to judge distance and the scale of the buildings that are the principal subject.  One of the unstated subjects though, is the wide boulevards that make the city a commodious habitation for the elegant and refined pedestrians.

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Peter Vereshchagin Paintings in GeoCodedArt

Pskov

Painting by Peter Vereshchagin (1834-1886). Though not as prolific as his brother Vasily, this artist rendered vivid images from many locations, some with famous landmarks and other more pastoral settings because they must have moved him somehow.  A very common elements is a river bending to the horizon. His views are generally unremarkable in the atmosphere, though he did some hazy views of mountains in Crimea.

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Konstantin Alekseyevich Korovin Paintings Geocoded

Arkhangelsk Port on Dvina

Painting by Konstantin Alekseyevich Korovin (1861–1939). This artist worked in a loose, colorful style,  doing more interiors and people going about their days then landscapes.  His works often seemed to be lit by a light we don't normally seem, and the objects in the scene appear to be giving off their own light.  The outdoor scenes he has done are never peaceful; there is a wind blowing through everything, or else the very spinning of the Earth animated every location and gives them a dynamic appearance.

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Apollinary Vasnetsov Paintings added to GeocodedArt

Novodevichy Convent Towers

Painting by Apollinary Vasnetsov (1856–1933)  Many of this artist's works have a scrubbed-air look about them as if a vigorous wind had just re-newed the environment and re-set the atmosphere for new endeavors.  He did town views with a variety of mediums and subjects, and despite painting a large number of scenes across Russia, he showed almost all of them in glorious sunlight and in warm weather.  There are pastoral views as well as the landmark structures in his works; unnamed town views as well as re-creations of views of past centuries, with considerable detailed paid to the dress and livelihood of people on the streets.

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Childe Hassam Paintings in Geocoded Art

Quincy, Massachusetts

Painting by Frederick Childe Hassam (1859-1935).  A highly prolific artist who painted recognizable but stylized views of scenes in many countries. His subject matter covered a wide range, from monumental to mundane; the seasons depicted were from blush of spring to harsh winter winds; pure nature scenes and the most urban location were near equally represented in his extensive output.
Surveying his work as a whole shows him to have a wide interest and curiosity, as well as a generous sense for where beauty is found, and recognizing that attitude enlivens the appreciation of each of his works.

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Asher B. Durand Paintings Geocoded

Dover Plain, Dutchess County, New York

Painting by Asher B. Durand (1796-1886)
One of the artists that initiated the effort to record scenes along and around the Hudson River Valley as images of an unspoiled land; but it was also surely in their eyes a place that industrious people should inhabit.

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