The History of Landscape Painting

History of the Landscape Genre - links to online articles and information websites

• Landscapes, Classical to Modern Curriculum (Education at the Getty)
  This curriculum from the Getty Museum for elementary and secondary students explores ideas behind western landscape art.
• Landscape Painting: History, Development, Artists
  Landscape Painting Genre: History, Examples, Famous Plein-Air Artists
• Best Landscape Artists, Top 10 List of Greatest Painters of Landscapes, Scenic Views: Oils, Watercol
  Best Landscape Artists, Top 10 List of Greatest Painters of Landscapes: Sisley, Cuyp, Corot, Jacob Van Ruisdal, Claude Lorraine, Constable, Monet, JMW Turner: Oils, Watercolours: 1400-Present
• Smithsonian: Landscape Painting - Artists who love the land
  Smithsonian Institution lesson plans in History, Art, Science, Language Arts and Social Studies.An introduction to landscape painting and American landscape artists: Catlin - Moran - Bierstadt - Homer

Landscape Art - painting and painters on Wikipedia

• Landscape art - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  Landscape art is the depiction of natural scenery such as mountains, valleys, trees, rivers, and forests, and especially art where the main subject is a wide view, with its elements arranged into a coherent composition.

• History of Landscape painting
  Ever wanted to know more about landscape art? This website has been designed for KS3 and KS4 students and their teachers.
• History of Landscape painting - Site map
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• History of Landscape painting - 14th - 16th Century
  Landscapes as a backdrop for other paintings. The landscape as an art in its own right gained in popularity in the Renaissance when the 'Classical' vision of the land as a place for pleasure was reborn and people looked at the landscape with renewed
• History of Landscape painting - 17th Century
  Two main centres of landscape art in the 17th century - in the Netherlands and Italy
• History of Landscape painting - 18th Century
  The Age of the Grand Tour - and paintings to remember it. France and Britain became the new centres of landscape art.
• History of Landscape painting - 19th Century
  Technologcal innovation brought two important changes - the introduction of photography and tube paint which encouraged the development of painting in the open air.
• History of Landscape painting - 20th Century
  The development of landscape art involves new media and a new emphasis on the impact of changes in the countryside aligned to changes in the economy
• Places | Landscapes in art. Explore, learn, inspire.
  The places that landscape paintings depict can be real, completely imaginary or a combination of actual and imagined elements.
• Composition | Landscapes in art. Explore, learn, inspire.
  Composition is the arrangement of the main parts of a painting in relation to each other. The way a painting is composed has a great deal of impact on the way we look at, interpret and understand it.
• Styles | Landscapes in art. Explore, learn, inspire.
  Artists express many different things through their landscapes and this dictates the way, or style, in which they paint.
• Perspective | Landscapes in art. Explore, learn, inspire.
  Covers aerial perspective, linear perspective and conceptual perspective
• Materials | Landscapes in art. Explore, learn, inspire.
  Considerations about which materials to use when developing landscape art

Articles about Landscape paintings

• The Guardian - Arcadian fire: how British art fell in love with the pastoral
  Two new shows reveal how artists such as Gainsborough, Sir Peter Lely and Paul Sandby depicted a golden, escapist Britain. By Jonathan Jones

The Picturesque - subjects - Subjects for Landscape Paintings

• Developing Subjects for Landscape Painting - Victoria and Albert Museum
  BRITISH WATERCOLOURS 1750 - 1900 Developing Subjects for Landscape PaintingFrom the middle of the 18th century a number of British writers sought to define and categorise human responses to natural phenomena, most notably Edmund Burke with his explor
• Italy - Victoria and Albert Museum
  DEVELOPING SUBJECTS FOR LANDSCAPE PAINTINGFor many 18th century British artists Italy was a land of inspiration - with its classical remains and Renaissance art and architecture. For British patrons, the Italian landscape was often imagined through t
• Ruins - Victoria and Albert Museum
  DEVELOPING SUBJECTS FOR LANDSCAPE PAINTINGRuins were originally of interest mainly to antiquarians, and the Antiquarian Society which formed in the early 18th century, employed a number of artists to record notable sites......Ruins gained a new curre
• Mountains - Victoria and Albert Museum
  DEVELOPING SUBJECTS FOR LANDSCAPE PAINTINGThe British first became accustomed to paintings of mountainous scenery through the popular dramatic work of the 17th century Italian Salvator Rosa.............Later, Edmund Burke, in 'A Philosophical Inquiry
• Cottages & Churches - Victoria and Albert Museum
  DEVELOPING SUBJECTS FOR LANDSCAPE PAINTINGGainsborough was an important pioneer, giving popular pictorial expression to contemporary English rustic landscape. In fact, what today seem typically English motifs - church spires and cottages peeping from

The Poetic Landscape

• handprint : the poetic landscape
  The poetic landscape presents the geography and architecture of landscape from a subjective point of view, using elements of myth, fantasy or the picturesque. These works form a long but complex tradition in European painting, culminating in the roma
• handprint : the poetic landscape - Gilpin and the Picturesque
  According to Gilpin, the term picturesque was "expressive of that peculiar kind of beauty which is agreeable in a picture," which he set up as a new type of beauty alongside Burke's beautiful and sublime. At its core, the picturesque was characterize

The Art of the Landscape - Britain - timeline, movements and artists

• The Art of the Landscape: Britain
  This page contains links to more information about British Landscape Artists and a timeline index of British Landscape Art. More information will be added as the project progresses. Some of the links are to threads in the Art of the Landscape Ning Fo

Landscape Painting in England

• English Landscape Painting, 18th/19th Century: History, Development, Styles, Artists: JMW Turner, Jo
  English School of Landscape Painting, 18th/19th Century: Origins, History, Methods, Artists, Media: Oils/Watercolours, Turner, Constable, Girtin, Richard Wilson, Gainsborough

Famous landscape artists in the UK (Past)

• Thomas Gainsborough - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  Thomas Gainsborough (christened 14 May 1727 - died 2 August 1788) was one of the most famous portrait and landscape painters of 18th century Britain.
• Thomas Girtin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  Thomas Girtin (18 February 1775 - 9 November 1802) was an English painter and etcher, who played a key role in establishing watercolour as a reputable art form. ... Girtin's early landscapes are akin to 18th-century topographical sketches, but in lat
• Thomas Gainsborough, Portrait Artist, English School: Biography, Style, Influences, Paintings
  Thomas Gainsborough: Portrait Artist, 18th Century English School: Biography, Painting Style, Influences, Examples of Portraits
• Thomas Girtin (1775-1802) English Landscape Painter, Watercolours: Biography, Paintings, Engravings
  Thomas Girtin, 18th Century English Landscape Painter, Watercolourist: Biography, Paintings, Engravings
• John Constable - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  John Constable (11 June 1776 - 31 March 1837) was an English Romantic painter. Born in Suffolk, he is known principally for his landscape paintings of Dedham Vale, the area surrounding his home-now known as "Constable Country"
• Richard Wilson, English Landscape Painter, 18th Century: Biography, Painting Style, Influences, Lega
  Richard Wilson, English Classical Landscape Painter of 18th Century: Biography, Paintings, Portraits, Art Style, Legacy

Famous Contemporary Landscape Artists in the UK

• Peter Doig - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  Many of Doig's pictures are landscapes, very abstract, with a number harking back to the snowy scenes of his childhood in Canada. Doig's landscapes are splendidly layered formally and conceptually, and draw on assorted artists from art history, inclu

Blogging about British Landscape Painters

• Making a Mark: Review: Paul Sandby - Picturing Britain Exhibition at the RA
  An exhibition to celebrate the man known as "the father of English watercolour painting" opens at the Royal Academy of Arts in London on Saturday 13th March.Yesterday I went to see Paul Sandby RA: Picturing Britain, A Bicentenary Exhibition which fea

The art of the Landscape - Europe - timeline, movements and artists

• Landscape Painting from the National Gallery of Art (pdf file)
  This program traces changing attitudes toward landscape painting from the Renaissance to the twentieth century.
• The Art of the Landscape: Europe
  This page contains links to more information about European Landscape Artists (past and present) and a timeline index of European Landscape Art. More information will be added as the project progresses. Some of the links are to threads in the Art o

Landscape Painting in France

• The Transformation of Landscape Painting in France | Thematic Essay | Timeline of Art History | The
  Related Timeline ContentTimelines----------------------------France, 1600-1800 A.D.France, 1800-1900 A.D.Thematic Essays----------------------------American ImpressionismAmericans in Paris, 18601900Claude Monet (1840-1926)The Daguerreian Age in Franc

Flemish Landscape Painting

• Flemish Baroque painting - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  Dutch and Flemish Landscape painting of the Baroque period

Notable Landscape Artists in Europe

• Category:Landscape artists - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  Artists whose body of work is landscapes or seascapes.
• Eugne Boudin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  Eugne Boudin (12 July 1824 - 8 August 1898) was one of the first French landscape painters to paint outdoors.Boudin was a marine painter, and expert in the rendering of all that goes upon the sea and along its shores. His pastels, summary and economi
• Pieter Bruegel the Elder - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c. 1525 - 9 September 1569) was a Netherlandish Renaissance painter and printmaker known for his landscapes and peasant scenes (Genre Painting).
• Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot (July 17, 1796[1] - February 22, 1875) was a French landscape painter and printmaker in etching. Corot was the leading painter of the Barbizon school of France in the mid-nineteenth century. He is a pivotal figure in lands
• Caspar David Friedrich - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  Caspar David Friedrich (September 5, 1774 - May 7, 1840) was a 19th-century German Romantic landscape painter, generally considered the most important of the movement.[2] He is best known for his mid-period allegorical landscapes which typically feat
• Emil Gruppe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  Although Gruppe is best known for his variety of impressionistic landscapes, he also painted figures and portraits. His modern style was largely inherited from the French Impressionist Monet.
• Jacob Van Ruisdael, Dutch Realist Landscape Painter: Biography, Paintings, The Jewish Cemetery, Rijk
  Jacob Van Ruisdael, 17th Century Dutch Realist Landscape Painter, Haarlem: Biography, Paintings: The Jewish Cemetery, The Cornfield and the Travellers: Exhibitions, Rijksmuseum
• Aelbert Cuyp, Dutch Realist Landscape Painter, Italianate Style: Biography, Paintings: Dordrecht Sch
  Aelbert Cuyp, 17th Century Dutch Realist Landscape Painter, Italianate Style, Dordrecht School: Biography, Paintings: The Sea by Moonlight (Hermitage)
• Claude Lorrain, Baroque Landscape Painter: Biography, Paintings: Claudean Italianate Classical Lands
  Claude Lorrain, Baroque Landscape Painter, 17th Century Classical Style: Biography, Paintings: Italianate Mythological Landscapes
• Christen Købke - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  Christen Schiellerup Kobke (May 26, 1810 – February 7, 1848). Kobke is one of the best known artists belonging to the Golden Age of Danish Painting.

The Art of the Landscape - North America - timeline, movements and artists

• The Art of the Landscape: North America
  This page contains links to more information about British Landscape Artists and a timeline index of British Landscape Art. More information will be added as the project progresses. Some of the links are to threads in the Art of the Landscape Ning

Famous Landscape Artists in USA

• Thomas Cole - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  Thomas Cole
• Frederic Edwin Church - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  Frederic Edwin Church (May 4, 1826 - April 7, 1900) was an American landscape painter born in Hartford, Connecticut. He was a central figure in the Hudson River School of American landscape painters.
• Sanford Robinson Gifford - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  Sanford Robinson GiffordBorn July 10, 1823(1823-07-10) Greenfield, New York Died August 29, 1880 (aged 57)
• Albert Bierstadt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  Albert Bierstadt (January 8, 1830 - February 18, 1902) was a German-American painter best known for his large landscapes of the American West. In obtaining the subject matter for these works, Bierstadt joined several journeys of the Westward Expansio
• Asher Brown Durand - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  Asher Brown Durand Born August 21, 1796(1796-08-21) Maplewood, New Jersey Died September 17, 1886 aged 90)
• Thomas Moran - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  Thomas Moran Born February 12, 1837(1837-02-12) Bolton, Lancashire, England
• List of Hudson River School artists - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  This is an incomplete List of Hudson River School Artists. The Hudson River School was a mid-19th century American art movement
• Group of Seven (artists) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  The Group of Seven were a group of Canadian landscape painters in the 1920s, originally consisting of Franklin Carmichael, Lawren Harris, A. Y. Jackson, Frank Johnston, Arthur Lismer, J. E. H. MacDonald, and Frederick Varley.

American Art - Landscape Painting

• Luminism (American art style) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  Luminism is an American landscape painting style of the 1850s - 1870s, characterized by effects of light in landscapes, through using aerial perspective, and concealing visible brushstrokes. Luminist landscapes emphasize tranquility, and often depict
• American scene painting - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  After World War I many American artists rejected the modern trends emanating from the Armory Show and European influences such as those from the School of Paris. Instead they chose to adopt academic realism in depicting American urban and rural sce

• 'Painting Canada: Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven' | Dulwich Picture Gallery
  This exhibition will reintroduce their stunning impressions of the Canadian landscape created by Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven to the British public for the first time since the 1920s
• Tom Thomson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  Tom Thomson Born August 5, 1877 Claremont, Ontario. Died July 8, 1917Tom Thomson, was an influential Canadian artist of the early 20th century. He directly influenced a group of Canadian painters that would come to be known as the Group of Seven, and
• Tom Thomson Online
  Tom Thomson [Canadian Painter, 1877-1917] Guide to pictures of works by Tom Thomson in art museum sites and image archives worldwide.
• Group of Seven (artists) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  The Group of Seven, sometimes known as the Algonquin school, were a group of Canadian landscape painters from 1920-1933
• Franklin Carmichael - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  Franklin Carmichael (May 4, 1890 - October 24, 1945) was a Canadian artist. He was the youngest original member of the Group of Seven.
• Franklin Carmichael Online
  Franklin Carmichael [Canadian Group of Seven Painter, 1890-1945] Guide to pictures of works by Franklin Carmichael in art museum sites and image archives worldwide.
• Lawren Harris - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  Lawren Stewart Harris, CC (October 23, 1885 - January 29, 1970) was a Canadian painter, born in Brantford, Ontario and best known as a member the Group of Seven. He pioneered a distinctly Canadian painting style in the early twentieth century.
• Lawren S. Harris Online
  Lawren S. Harris [Canadian Group of Seven Painter, 1885-1970] Guide to pictures of works by Lawren S. Harris in art museum sites and image archives worldwide.
• A. Y. Jackson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  Alexander Young Jackson, CC, CMG (October 3, 1882 - April 5, 1974) was a Canadian painter and a founding member of the Group of Seven.
• A.Y. Jackson Online
  A.Y. Jackson [Canadian Group of Seven Painter, 1882-1974] Guide to pictures of works by A.Y. Jackson in art museum sites and image archives worldwide.
• Frank Johnston (artist) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  Frank Johnston (June 19, 1888 - July 19, 1949) was a Canadian artist associated with the Group of Seven.
• Frank Johnston Online
  Frank Johnston [Canadian Group of Seven Painter, 1888-1949] Guide to pictures of works by Frank Johnston in art museum sites and image archives worldwide.
• Arthur Lismer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  Arthur Lismer, CC (27 June 1885 - 23 March 1969) was an English-born Canadian painter and member of the Group of Seven.
• Arthur Lismer Online
  Arthur Lismer [English-born Canadian Group of Seven Painter, 1885-1969] Guide to pictures of works by Arthur Lismer in art museum sites and image archives worldwide.
• J. E. H. MacDonald - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  James Edward Hervey MacDonald (May 12, 1873 - November 26, 1932) was born in Durham, England and was a member of the famous Group of Seven Canadian artists.
• J.E.H. MacDonald Online
  J.E.H. MacDonald [English-born Canadian Group of Seven Painter, 1873-1932] Guide to pictures of works by J.E.H. MacDonald in art museum sites and image archives worldwide.
• Frederick Varley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  Frederick Horsman Varley, also known as Fred Varley (January 2, 1881 - September 8, 1969), was born in Sheffield, England and was a member of the Canadian Group of Seven artists.
• F.H. Varley Online
  F.H. Varley [Canadian Group of Seven Painter, 1881-1969] Guide to pictures of works by F.H. Varley in art museum sites and image archives worldwide.
• Dulwich on View | Coast to Coast with Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven
  Coast to Coast with Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven - Julian Beecroft's trans-Canada blog

The Art of the Landscape - Asia - timeline, movements and artists

• The Art of the Landscape: Asia
  This page contains links to more information about Asian Landscape Artists and a timeline index of Asian Landscape Art. More information will be added as the project progresses. Some of the links are to threads in the Art of the Landscape Ning Foru