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  2. Bliss (photograph) - Wikipedia

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    Bliss, originally titled Bucolic Green Hills, is the default wallpaper of Microsoft's Windows XP operating system. It is a photograph of a green rolling hills and daytime sky with cirrus clouds . Charles O'Rear , a former National Geographic photographer, took the photo in January 1998 near the Napa – Sonoma county line, California, after a ...

  3. Landscape painting - Wikipedia

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    Landscape painting, also known as landscape art, is the depiction in painting of natural scenery such as mountains, valleys, rivers, trees, and forests, especially where the main subject is a wide view—with its elements arranged into a coherent composition. In other works, landscape backgrounds for figures can still form an important part of ...

  4. The Heart of the Andes - Wikipedia

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    The Heart of the Andes is a large oil-on-canvas landscape painting by the American artist Frederic Edwin Church (1826–1900). It depicts an idealized landscape in the South American Andes, where Church traveled on two occasions.

  5. Wanderer above the Sea of Fog - Wikipedia

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    Wanderer above the Sea of Fog [a] is a painting by German Romanticist artist Caspar David Friedrich made in 1818. [2] It depicts a man standing upon a rocky precipice with his back to the viewer; he is gazing out on a landscape covered in a thick sea of fog through which other ridges, trees, and mountains pierce, which stretches out into the distance indefinitely.

  6. View of Delft - Wikipedia

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    Ever since I saw the View of Delft in the museum in The Hague, I have known that I had seen the most beautiful painting in the world. [ 23 ] [ 24 ] At the end of May 1921, Proust viewed the painting again while visiting an exhibition of Dutch masters at the Jeu de Paume in Paris accompanied by Vaudoyer, and suffered a seizure in front of the ...

  7. The Voyage of Life - Wikipedia

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    Cole comments on the landscape and the youth's ambitions: "The scenery of the picture—its clear stream, its lofty trees, its towering mountains, its unbounded distance, and transparent atmosphere—figure forth the romantic beauty of youthful imaginings, when the mind elevates the mean and common into the magnificent, before experience ...

  8. The Tetons and the Snake River - Wikipedia

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    The picture was taken from an elevated point of view and depicts the Snake River in a mountainous valley. A dramatically lit black-and-white photograph depicts a large river, which snakes from the bottom right to the center left of the picture.

  9. Yamdrok Lake - Wikipedia

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    Yamdrok Lake (at the top) and Lake Puma Yumco from space, November 1997. The lake (638 km 2 (246 sq mi) in area, 30 metres (98 ft) average depth and 60 metres (200 ft) at its deepest) [3] is fan-shaped, spreading to the south but narrowing up to the north.