Windmill

Windmill is a subject in art. The gallery holds 200 works in this subject in art, including works by Jean Baptiste Camille Corot, Claude Monet and John Constable.

A windmill is a machine operated by the force of wind acting on vanes or sails to mill grain (gristmills). Windmills were used throughout the high medieval and early modern periods; the horizontal or panemone windmill first appeared in Persia during the 9th century, and the vertical windmill first appeared in northwestern Europe in the 12th century.