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All Mountain and Alpine Landscapes

Landscapes whose subject is a mountain, a mountain range or a high pass, from the Alps to the Riesengebirge and the Mediterranean hills. A work belongs here when the cited article names a mountain or mountain range as the scene. It excludes rolling farmland, coasts and views of towns. Painters of the Romantic period favored the subject for its sense of the sublime, and the group follows the place named in the cited article.

All Mountain and Alpine Landscapes
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The Watzmann (Wikipedia)
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The Watzmann (German - Der Watzmann) is an 1824-1825 oil on canvas painting by Caspar David Friedrich, showing the Watzmann mountain as seen from Berchtesgaden to the north-east.
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Mountain Landscape with Rainbow (Wikipedia)
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Mountain Landscape with Rainbow (German: Gebirgslandschaft mit Regenbogen), is an oil painting by the German Romantic artist Caspar David Friedrich, from 1809-1810.
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Morning on the Riesengebirge (Wikipedia)
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Morning on the Riesengebirge (German - Morgen im Riesengebirge) is an 1810-1811 painting by the German Romantic artist Caspar David Friedrich of a scene on the Riesengebirge.
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Mountains at Collioure (Wikipedia)
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Mountains at Collioure is a 1905 painting by French painter André Derain.
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Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog (Wikipedia)
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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
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Snow Storm: Hannibal and His Army Crossing the Alps, Wikipedia
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The painting depicts a black storm, a snow avalanche and an attacking Alpine tribe threatening Hannibal's army during his crossing of the Alps in 218 BC, at the start of the Second Punic War.
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The Rigi (Wikipedia)
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Turner painted three watercolours of the Rigi, a mountain in the Alps in Central Switzerland, which he had visited the previous summer.
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The Heart of the Andes (Wikipedia)
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It depicts an idealized landscape in the South American Andes, where Church traveled on two occasions.
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