When you think of "Georgian Architecture" you probably picture something like this: Park Crescent in London, designed by John Nash in 1812.
But what is Georgian Architecture? Where did it come from? Why is it even called that? And is it still relevant?
Its name comes from the fact that this style was popular in Britain during the Georgian Era — the consecutive reigns of kings George I, George II, George III, and George IV, from 1714 to 1830.
But Georgian Architecture both predates and outlived that era.
A brief introduction to Albert Bierstadt, one of the greatest landscape painters who ever lived...
Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902) was born in Germany but moved to Massachusetts with his family before his second birthday.
As a young boy Bierstadt started to paint. He returned to Europe — Düsseldorf — to train, and there turned his hand to landscapes.
When Bierstadt returned to America, already a mature landscape artist, he joined the Hudson River School.
This was a group of American landscape painters under the tutelage of Thomas Cole, an Englishman who had moved to New York and fallen in love with its natural beauty.