Image: Moonlight Landscape (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri Guercino) - Nationalmuseum - 20163

Description: The Italian painter Guercino executed several painted and drawn landscapes in this style. The forms are balanced and there is a harmonious calm in the picture. The tree trunks and the carriage in the foreground are articulated against the water, the castle, and the sailboats in the background, creating a sense of depth in the picture. The moonlight creates a particular mood. In the seventeenth century, landscape painting developed into its own genre. The landscape per se became the motif without needing to contain a narrative scene.
Title: Moonlight Landscape
Credit: Nationalmuseum
Author: Guercino
Permission: The author died in 1666, so this work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or fewer. You must also include a United States public domain tag to indicate why this work is in the public domain in the United States.
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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