Although considered a minor genre for a long time, the art of
landscape has risen above its forebears – religious and historic
painting – to become a genre of its own. Giorgione in Italy, the
Brueghels of the Flemish School, Claude Lorrain and Poussain of the
French School, the Dutch landscape painters and Turner and Constable of
England are just a few of the great landscapists who have left their
indelible mark on the history of landscape and the art of painting as a
whole.
After serving for a long time as a backdrop for paintings and
as a skill-practising exercise for artists, nature came to be observed
for its own sake and was incorporated into works of art as an
illustration of an enlightened and scientific study of the world.
Through continual change, it has inspired the greatest painters and has
allowed some others, like Turner, to transcend the relentless search for
mere realism in pictorial representation. Through this study,
Émile Michel offers an exceptional panorama, from the 15th century to
the present, of art and the way artists portray the world in all its
splendour.
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