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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Émile Michel. Landscapes
Preface
Chapter 1 The Masters of Landscape Painting in Italy
Chapter 2 Landscape in the Flemish and German Schools
The Flemish School
The Miniaturists
The Bruegels, Rubens, and Teniers
German Landscape
Chapter 3 Dutch Landscapists
The School of Utrecht and the “Italianisers”
The Landscapists of Haarlem
Painters of the sea, beaches, and towns of Holland
Rembrandt’s Landscapes
Chapter 4 Landscape in the Spanish and French Schools
The Spanish School
A Late Blooming
French School
‘Le Lorrain’, Claude Gellée
Chapter 5 Landscapists of the English School
Art, Nature, and Turner
John Constable
Chapter 6 The Masters of Modern Landscape Painting
Théodore Rousseau and the Barbizon painters
The Schism of 1820
Landscapists born prior to 1820
Landscapists born after 1820
Conclusion
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Pieter Bruegel the Elder, The Magpie on the Gallows (Peasants “dancing under the gallows”) (detail), 1568.
Oil on panel, 45.6 × 50.8 cm.
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Titian was destined to surpass his predecessors, including, even, Giorgione, and to realise their noblest aspirations. He was born around 1490 and died in 1576 and, during his long career saw the commencement of the Venetian school and its decline. He himself marks the zenith of its glory, being the most complete and brilliant.
Owing to his universality, he was able to express himself in all branches of art, and to all of them he added something new. On account of the place he gave to nature in his works, he may be considered the veritable creator of modern landscape painting, and on this account he commands our special attention.
