landscape painting

landscape painting, portrayal of scenes found in the natural world; these scenes are treated as the subject of the work of art rather than as an element in another kind of painting.

Sections in this article:

• Introduction
• Landscape Art in the East
• The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
• The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
• The Renaissance and the Sixteenth Century
• Early Landscapes
• Bibliography

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