bofransson:

Puteaux Maurice de Vlaminck - 1915

almost exactly as seen today from Budapest’s Gellérthegy hilltop

lonequixote:

A Sunday in Eindhoven ~ Vincent van Gogh

Incredible atmosphere.

(via rosebiar)

Street in a Near Eastern Town by William James Müller (1812‑1845), 1838, graphite and watercolour on paper, 24,7 x 14,5 cm, Tate Gallery, London

Müller was one of the first British artists to go to Egypt, travelling there in 1838–9. He wrote that ‘of all the spots I had ever seen for the artist’ this sort of street scene ‘would prove the most fertile for his pencil’.

The Islamic world had long fascinated Western audiences, though they had generally been satisfied with recycled fantasies. Müller’s sketch represents a new, eye-witness approach. By the late 1830s biblical archaeology, and an escalation of European diplomatic and military activity in the area, fuelled demand for more convincing documentary images of the Middle East.

(www.tate.org.uk)

cavetocanvas:

Thomas Moran, Venice from the Tower of San Giorgio, 1900

poboh:

Small town with Mediterranean sunshine, Elemér Vass. Hungarian (1887 - 1957)