The art of landscapes : a compilation of works from the Bridgeman Art Gallery
Swinglehurst, Edmund1994
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In early painting landscape was merely regarded as a backdrop to religious or mythological dramas, or a background for portraits of the rich and powerful figures of the day. One of the first to use landscape as part of a genre painting was Breugel, and soon painters such as Claude and Poussin were devoting most of their canvases to landscape, in a romantic, classical framework. These sources were the inspiration for such famous landscape painters as Turner and Constable, Fragonard and Hobbema. The story continues to modern times, taking in Victorian painters such as Landseer and Ruskin, as well as the Impressionists, and such individual figures as Ben Nicholson and Graham Sutherland.
Main title:
The art of landscapes : a compilation of works from the Bridgeman Art Gallery / Edmund Swinglehurst.
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Imprint:
Great Britain : Parragon, 1994.
Collation:
78 pages, colour illustrations; 21 cm.
ISBN:
18581364669781858136462
Dewey class:
758.1758
Local class:
758.1
Language:
English
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Index terms:
Artists Painters Painting
BRN:
159625
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