1890
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Parthenon, Inside is a 1890 ink by Themistocles von Eckenbrecher, a Impressionism work, depicting Ruins, held at National Gallery of Art.
The painting shows the inside of the Parthenon with tall columns rising against a pale sky. The light picks out the fluted columns and shadows on the floor. Tiny figures walk between them, making the huge space feel almost human. Von Eckenbrecher painted this in 1890, during a trip to Greece. He used black ink and watercolor layered like stained glass. The glazing gives a soft glow to the marble. Find more work like this at the National Gallery of Art, Washington.
Karl Paul Themistokles von Eckenbrecher (17 November 1842, Athens – 4 December 1921, Goslar) was a German landscape and marine painter, in the late Romantic style.
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