Claude Monet, one of the most exceptional ... beautiful genre of Impressionist art, is loved and revered in the art circles. He excelled at portraying the still beauty of nature, the sceneries ...

If it's a real-life place in the painting, you can visit it yourself. Like Giverny, where Monet lived and painted the beauties of his garden. Perhaps, for these famous painters, it was the opposite.

The French art critic Louis Vauxcelles described ... of the way bits of the sky are reflected in it, giving it life and ...

and a counterclaim filed by Hiscox are still in litigation. Monet often returned to same subjects and scenes, Tucker said, a habit exemplified by the roughly 250 paintings of water lilies in his ...