Italian Renaissance Landscape Painting Van Gogh when the days lengthen and

when the days lengthen and the banks turn green once more

This piece speaks to a love of the wild and the dignity of one of nature's most revered creatures

Its big round eyes and floppy ears give it instant character

every band of the spectrum glowing with vivid intensity

while the dark ground adds depth and drama

Italian Renaissance Landscape Painting Van Gogh when the days lengthen andA sweeping Italian valley unfolds beneath a vast painterly sky, where golden sunlight breaks through billowing clouds over distant blue mountains. A grand villa crowns the right hand cliff, framed by slender cypress trees and cascading greenery, while terracotta roofed houses cluster along a winding river that snakes through the cultivated hills below. The far shoreline of a pale lake glimmers on the left, and every ridge dissolves softly into