ARH 375 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Bamburgh Castle, Watercolor Painting, Claude Lorrain
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Landscape painting became a major genre in british art in the 19th century. Restricted access to the continent helped fuel a naturalist movement and art that presented the "picturesque" Jmw turner and john constable both worked to make landscape painting as prestigious as history painting with the royal academy. Watercolors: were very portable, were looked down upon by the royal academy o created their own art group. Salisbury cathedral seen from the cloister o. Turner widely thought to be the greatest landscape painter to come from. Tintern abbey: the crossing and cancel, looking towards the east window o o. Tintern is an abbey church in whales that was destroyed during the english. Reformation and by the role of nature afterwards overgrown vines shows the relentlessness of nature reclaiming things o gothic aesthetic: watercolor. Dido building carthage or the rise of carthaginian empire o. Seaport with the embarkation of the queen of sheba: claude lorrain o o.