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Clearing Up--Coast of Sicily  1847

by Andreas Achenbach

Beginning in the 1820s, the academy in Düsseldorf, a town on the Rhine River, began to attract artists from other German cities and from abroad. Achenbach, one of Düsseldorf's most influential painters in the mid-19th century, specialized in the "sublime" mode of landscape painting, in which man is dwarfed by nature's might and fury. At the left the evening sunlight breaks...
Size: 
H: 32 1/2 x W: 45 11/16 in. (82.5 x 116.1 cm)
Medium: 
oil on canvas
Credit: 
Courtesy of the Walters Art Museum