Fine Art Friday - Vol. 6

With so much focus on the technical side of of visualization, we want to bring some much needed attention back to the roots of our industry. Every Friday we'll be posting a series of paintings, photographs and traditional illustrations to showcase lighting, composition and mood to help inspire your digital visualizations. Below you'll find a selection of curated works across the centuries.  Do you have a favourite non-digital artist you think we should feature? Let us know!

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Title: Princes Street with the Commencement of the Building of the Royal Institution
Artist: Alexander Nasmyth
Medium: oil on canvas
Date: 1825

Title: A View of Murton Colliery near Seaham, County Durham
Artist: James Wilson Carmichael
Medium: oil on canvas
Date: 1843

Title: View of Florence
Artist: Thomas Cole
Medium: oil on canvas
Date: 1837

Title: Bucentaur's return to the pier by the Palazzo Ducale
Artist: Canaletto
Medium: oil on canvas
Date: from 1727 until 1729

Title: Bucentaur's return to the pier by the Palazzo Ducale
Artist: Karl Friedrich Schinkel
Medium: oil on canvas
Date: circa 1830

Title: Cathedral over a city / Medieval Town by Water
Artist: Karl Friedrich Schinkel
Medium: oil on canvas
Date: 1820

Title: Yosemite Valley, Glacier Point Trail
Artist: Albert Bierstadt
Medium: oil on canvas
Date: circa 1873

Title: Ein Meerhafen
Artist: Johann Anton Eismann
Medium: oil on canvas
Date: 17th century

Title: Nighthawks
Artist: Edward Hopper
Medium:
Date: 1942

Title: The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak
Artist: Albert Bierstadt
Medium: oil on canvas
Date: 1863

Title: Halle (Saale), Informationstafel beim Halleschen Dom
Artist: Lyonel Feininger
Medium:
Date: 1931

Title: Men of the Docks
Artist: George Bellows
Medium: oil on canvas
Date: February 1912

Title: The Great Market in Haarlem
Artist: Gerrit Adriaenszoon Berckheyde
Medium: oil on canvas
Date: 1696

Title: Et selskab af danske kunstnere i Rom
Artist: Constantin Hansen
Medium: oil on canvas
Date: 1837

Title: An Indian Mosque on the Hooghly River near Calcutta
Artist: Auguste Borget
Medium: oil on canvas
Date: 1846