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Landscapes

Hardback

Main Details

Title Landscapes
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Emile Michel
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:256
Dimensions(mm): Height 317,Width 265
Category/GenreArt History
Painting and paintings
Animals and nature in art (still life, landscapes and seascapes, etc)
ISBN/Barcode 9781844848218
ClassificationsDewey:758.1
Audience
General
Illustrations 150 illustrations

Publishing Details

Publisher Parkstone Press Ltd
Imprint Parkstone Press Ltd
Publication Date 1 September 2010
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

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, Emile 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."