Chinese landscape. The scholar’s life
Public service, retirement, gardens, poetry and the memory of earlier masters.
Landscape paintings from different artists and countries. Explore forests, fields, mountains and city views with zoom and painting stories.
135 artworks. Open a painting to read its story and explore its details.
Compare times of day, weather and viewpoints. Notice the place each artist gives to people and buildings. The story of each work helps explain whether the landscape grew out of travel, everyday observation or another purpose.
Public service, retirement, gardens, poetry and the memory of earlier masters.
Nature, territorial expansion, the Civil War and urban life in American painting.
Twelve works about observation, travel and artistic choices, from Savrasov and Shishkin to Levitan and Nesterov.
Seurat, Cézanne, Van Gogh and Gauguin changed painting for different reasons.
On an artwork page, choose “Explore the painting”. Zoom in, move around the image and hide the text to see the details. Turn on the audio guide to hear the story, or use autoplay to move between passages.
Zoom quality depends on the available reproduction. Each artwork page lists its collection, story sources and image rights. Access is free and no account is required.