Genre
Urban
The city sits for its portrait. From the canals of Venice to the boulevards of Paris, the urban view records a place at a particular hour — its architecture, its crowds, its commerce — and in doing so becomes a document of how people actually lived among stone and traffic and light.
Key artists
Works
The Rope Dance
View from the Quai d'Orsay
The Cathedrals of Broadway
The Cathedrals of Wall Street
Parochialstrasse in Berlin
The Pont Neuf, Paris
Sunday at the Church of Saint-Philippe-du-Roule, Paris
A Mosque
View of the Brenta, near Dolo
Vaprio d'Adda
The Sack of Jerusalem by the Romans
The Defense of Champigny
Capriccio with St. Paul's and Old London Bridge
Piazza San Marco
Le port de Honfleur la nuit
A Windy Day on the Pont des Arts
The Dispatch-Bearer
The Departure of the Gondola
Street Group
Street Scene in Paris (Coin de rue à Paris)
Parisian Street Scene
The Grand Canal above the Rialto
Steamboats in the Port of Rouen
Artillery
The Building of Westminster Bridge
Rouen Cathedral, West Façade
Rouen Cathedral, West Façade, Sunlight
Beggars by a Door
Pilgrims Travelling to Ise
Docks on Sunday
Wedding Procession
Saltash with the Water Ferry, Cornwall
Snow, Winter in Vitebsk
源氏物語絵巻 「澪標」|“Channel Markers” (Miotsukushi)
A Mosque
Le Pont Neuf
The Houses of Parliament (Effect of Fog)
Santa Maria della Salute
The Outer Harbor of Brest
Venice: The Rialto
A Street in Ikao
Old English House by Moonlight
Palazzo da Mula, Venice
Football Players
The Return of Rip Van Winkle
Piazza San Marco, Venice
The Bistro
Bridge over a canal in Venice
Harlem River
The Green Car
The Pont Neuf
Ice Floes
Victims of the Fiesta
Canal Side
A Cairo Bazaar
View of Pantheon
Paris Night
The Cathedrals of Fifth Avenue
Five Beauties
A House with Flowering Trees along the Amalfi Coast of Italy
Rue Eugène Moussoir at Moret: Winter
View of Dinant
Place Vintimille
Luxembourg Gardens
Mounting of the Guard
Waterloo Bridge, London, at Dusk
Pirna: The Obertor from the South
Waterfront
The Doge's Palace Seen from San Giorgio Maggiore
View of Venice
East River
Venice: The Dogana and Santa Maria della Salute
Piazza San Marco, Venice
The Fable of the Miller, His Son, and the Donkey
One Third of a Nation
View of the Pantheon, Rome
A Cardinal's Procession
Baby Krishna Asking for Butter from Yashoda, from a Kalighat album
View of Bordeaux, from the Quai des Chartrons
The Curious One
The Baptismal procession of Prince Juan, son of the Catholic Kings, through the streets of Seville
An Overcast Day in Florence near Ponte Santa Trinità
Landing in Venice. In the Distance S. Maria delle Salute
Afternoon at Coney Island
Capriccio
The Harbor
The Windmill
Naples
The Giralda, Seville
14th Street Theatre
Moorish Buildings on a Cloudy Day
The Wood Sawyer
Santa Maria della Salute
Negro Boys on the Quayside
Scenes from a Legend
The Laundresses
Berks County Almshouse, 1895
Rialto Bridge, Venice
Concert at the Casino of Deauville
Ancient Ruins near Messina, Sicily
Temporary Tribune in the Campo San Zanipolo, Venice
The Flag of Truce
The Scuola di San Marco, Venice
Pont de la Tournelle, Paris
Study of a Model
Nearing the Issue at the Cockpit
Notre Dame de Paris
Don Lorenzo Bellavita, famoza dentista
From the Old Kristiania
The Granite Bowl at the Lustgarten, Berlin
The Road to Nantes
Page from Tales of a Parrot (Tuti-nama): text page
On the River
Midnight
The Sand-Carrying Festival (Sunamochi Matsuri)
Sweeping Snow
A Eunuch's Dream
The Pie Wagon
Page from Tales of a Parrot (Tuti-nama): text page
Text page from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot)
View of Nantes
Cornelis Calkoen on his Way to his Audience with Sultan Ahmed III
View of the Castel Sant'Angelo in Rome
Venetian Lagoon
The Murder of Patrona Halil and his Fellow Rebels
River view by night
Judgement of Cambyses
Untitled
Returned Family in a Moonlit Square
View of Paris seen from the Place Dauphine
Vestatemplet med dets omgivelser
The Stables Viewed from the Château at Versailles
White Walls in Sunlight, Morocco
1886
De beeldenstormers
Armistice Day, Paris
Movement No. 5, Provincetown Houses
Rotterdam in the Moonlight
View of St.Charles’s Church and the Polytechnic Institute
The Jan Roodenpoortstoren, Amsterdam
A View of Chester
Casting the dice for life or death
Dutch Troops passing through the Fortress of Dendermonde
The climbing of the Capitol with the gray horse of the newly elected pope
Horse Race at the Kamo Shrine (Kamo kurabeuma zu)
Madrid fair
Malasaña y su hija se baten contra los franceses en una de las calles que bajan del parque a la de San Bernardo. Dos de mayo de 1808
The Meadow of San Isidro
Market in Stege Torv
March Day in Le Jardin du Luxembourg, Paris
Randers havn
Ved Canal Grande i Venedig
A view from the Tower of Viborg Cathedral
View of Canale Grande in Venice with the Rialto Bridge
Sunday
Camels in a Street in Tunisia
The Reception of Charles II and his Brothers
A Square in Paris
The “Riva degli Schiavoni” in Venice
Scene of the Belgian Revolution
The soldier and the lady
View of Smyrna (Izmir)
The Latin school on the Singel, Amsterdam
The Grand Vizier Crossing the Atmeydanı (Horse Square)
The Girandola at the Castel Sant'Angelo in Rome
The Continence of Scipio
Fireworks in Naples
Santa Trinità dei Monti in the Snow
The procession of the schools in 1878
Pont Royal in Paris. Sketch
Winter Evening in Ribe, Jutland
Stacks of Wheat (End of Day, Autumn)
View of the Grand Canal, Venice. In the Background S. Maria della Salute
Artillerivej. Forår
View of the Forum Romanum and the Via Sacra. In the background the Capitol
St. Peter's Church, Copenhagen
Moonlit View of Stockholm
Notre Dame de Paris
Rouen Cathedral, Portal and Tower d'Albane, Dawn
Early Snow in Louveciennes
Courtyard in Constantinople
The Women on the Bridge
17th of May in a Small, Norwegian Town
View of the Grand Canal near Cà Pesaro
The Proclamation of the Peace of Münster at the Grote Markt in Antwerp
Napoleon dismounting with an injured foot at Regensburg, aided by the Surgeon, Yvan, April 23, 1809
Village Street after a Thunderstorm
De Handelskom in Brugge
Departure of the Duc de Choiseul from the Piazza di San Pietro
The Ommegang in Brussels: Part 1: Procession of Guilds
Triumphal Entry of Constantine in Rome
"Madrid Fair in Cebada Square"
Embarkation of the Doge of Venice
Incendio del Monasterio de El Escorial en 1671
Aeneas and his family fleeing the burning city of Troy, with the Trojan horse in the background
¡A la guerra!
Ascent of a Montgolfier Balloon at Aranjuez
Triumphal Entry of Vespasian in Rome
The Festival of the Ommegang in Brussels: the procession of Our Lady of Sablon
La Puerta de San Vicente, de Ginés Andrés de Aguirre
Frequently asked questions
What is Urban?
Urban is a setting in painting. The city sits for its portrait.
How many Urban works does Artifact World Gallery have?
Artifact World Gallery holds 6,469 public-domain Urban works, all free to view and download.
Who are the key Urban artists?
Key Urban artists in the collection include Camille Pissarro, Claude Monet and Alfred Sisley.