Italian, 1820-1887  Related Paintings of Luigi Querena :. | Portrait of a Young Woman | The Burning Ghat Benares,as Seen From the City | The Inspiration of the Poet | Couple | Washerwomen |
Related Artists:
Luigi Mussini
Italian , Berlino, 1813 - Siena, 1888
Isaac Levitan
Russia.1844-1927
Thomas Girtin
English Romantic Painter, 1775-1802 English painter, draughtsman and printmaker. With his rival, J. M. W. Turner, he extended the technical possibilities of watercolour and in doing so demonstrated that watercolours could have the visual impact and emotional range of oils. Although close in style throughout the 1790s, by 1800 Turner and Girtin were beginning to diverge: whereas the former dissolved forms to express his idea of Nature in a state of flux, the latter sought out a landscape's underlying patterns to convey his awe of Nature's permanence as well as its grandeur. Girtin's reduction of landscape to simple and monumental forms