This program traces changing attitudes toward landscape painting from the Renaissance to the 20th century. Landscape painting in the European tradition first served as a vehicle for religious symbolism and, later, as the setting for religion, mythological, literary, and historical subjects. Dutch painters of the 17th century were among the first to treat landscape as a subject in its own right, and the subject became increasingly popular in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Landscape Paintings from the National Gallery of Art
Landscape Paintings from the National Gallery of Art
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