Landscape Art Painting History

Capturing the beauty of the natural world was not a priority in early art when the focus was on spiritual or historical subjects.

Landscape art painting history. In this italian renaissance painting giorgione places equal emphasis on the figures. Landscape painting also known as landscape art is the depiction of landscapes in art natural scenery such as mountains valleys trees rivers and forests especially where the main subject is a wide view with its elements arranged into a coherent composition in other works landscape backgrounds for figures can still form an important part of the work. Like much of el greco s work view of toledo offers an atmospheric study of the. Famous landscape art throughout history giorgione the tempest c.

Its position in the hierarchy of genres history and development of landscape painting 16th century joachim patenir albrecht durer pieter bruegel 17th century aelbert cuyp jacob van ruisdael poussin claude lorrain 18th. In western art the earliest extant example of a painted landscape is a fresco in akrotiri an aegean bronze agesettlement on the volcanic greekisland of santorini. It was beautifully preserved. The tradition of landscape painting in any form was born from centuries of evolved painting styles beginning with the tinted walls of the ancient greeks.

Adorning their walls with beautiful gardens and rolling hills was initially common but eventually these scenes became the backdrop for religious stories. Landscape painting in history as popular as they may be today landscapes are relatively new to the art world. The greeks and romans created wall paintings of landscapes and gardenscapes. Landscape painting in the 16th 17th and 18th centuries though landscape painting was still not a genre in its own right and was considered low in the art academy s rigid hierarchy of subject matter background landscapes became increasingly detailed in compositions that emerged in venice in the late 15th century.

Until the seventeenth century landscape was confined to the background of portraits or paintings dealing principally with religious mythological or historical subjects history painting. Landscapes as a subject matter were especially popular during the time of the ancient romans and ancient chinese art their famous silk and ink paintings are brimming with mountains and seascapes. The appreciation of nature for its own sake and its choice as a specific subject for art is a relatively recent phenomenon. Landscape painting 1500 present definition landscape art.