At the J. Paul Getty Museum, “Sur le motif: Painting in Nature Around 1800” takes viewers back to a time before TV, movies and photographs, when looking at hand-painted pictures of faraway ...

View ITALIAN SCHOOL circa 1800 The incredulity of Saint Thomas Black stone 22.5 x 27.5 cm Pitting From an engraving by Giovanni Battista Pasqualini, of a work by Le Guerchin (Circa 1800) By Italian ...

Crafted by the Italian painter between 1618 and 1619, Moses was in the possession of a 17th-century Roman Catholic cardinal and his descendants until the 1800s when its whereabouts became unknown.

Just before cameras transformed the Italian countryside into a 3-D postcard, painters from the rest of Europe worked to capture the magic of the landscape. Without the benefits of photography ...