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Record Nr.

UNINA9910964329103321

Autore

Michel Emile <1828-1909.>

Titolo

Landscapes / / Emile Michel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Parkstone Press International, 2011

ISBN

9781283956895

1283956896

9781780428819

1780428812

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (256 pages)

Collana

Temporis collection

Disciplina

701.8

Soggetti

Landscape painting, European

Landscapes in art

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published: Les maitres du paysage. Paris : Hachette, 1906.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; 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; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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-practicing exercise for artists, nature came to