Winter isn't all bad – these "sublime" landscapes of the frozen North from the turn of the 20th Century offer us a way into resilience – and an "acceptance of the seasonality of life".

Shrovetide (Russian: Maslenitsa) is another enduring winter landscape theme. It is a big, joyous celebration marking the end of winter. And Kustodiev was a master of depicting folk festivals.

Persian and Indian painters weren’t doing observational landscape painting at the time, but Navina Najat Haidar, the curator in charge of Islamic Art at the Met, points to snow in several 15th ...

Gotch studied at the Slade and started out as a landscape painter in Cornwall, but a winter break in Florence in 1881 transformed his painting style. Inspired by medieval art, his pictures became ...