A landscape is the visible features of an area of land, its landforms, and how they integrate with natural or human-made features, often considered in terms of their aesthetic appeal.

Although paintings from the earliest ancient and Classical periods included natural scenic elements, landscape as an independent genre did not emerge in the Western tradition until the Renaissance in the 16th century. In the Eastern tradition, the genre can be traced back to 4th-century-ce China.

In the 16th century the renaissance happened which the culture and style of art and architecture developed during this time. A German Renaissance Master. Painter, draftsman, and printmaker active in Regensburg, Albrecht Altdorfer (around 1480–1538) was a major German artist of the 16th century.

Classical Landscapes

In the 17th century the classical landscape was born. These landscapes were influenced by classical antiquity and sought to illustrate an ideal landscape recalling Arcadia, a legendary place in ancient Greece known for its quiet pastoral beauty

Nicolas Poussin spent most of his career in Rome, immersed in the study of ancient art, where he painted classically inspired works for an educated elite. His art has long been considered the embodiment of the ideals of seventeenth-century

classicism.

Romanticism

Landscape painting eventually gained prominence in the late 18th century with the rise of Romanticism. Romanticism is a literary and artistic movement marked chiefly by an emphasis on the imagination and emotions: the quality or state of being romantic.

Additionally, it became a method of self-expression, with the emotions of the painter and their appreciation of nature demonstrated in the painting.

Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes was a French painter who was influential in elevating the status of En plein air (open-air painting).

1826 and 1827
According to records, the earliest known evidence of a landscape photograph was taken between the years of 1826 and 1827. It was an urban landscape photo taken by a French inventor by the name of Nicephore Niepce

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landscapes are natural scenery, photos and paintings of land.

 

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