Definition of Landscape painting

1. Noun. A genre of art dealing with the depiction of natural scenery.

Exact synonyms: Landscape
Generic synonyms: Genre
Derivative terms: Landscapist

Lexicographical Neighbors of Landscape Painting

landrail
landrails
landreeve
landreeves
landrover
landrush
landrushes
lands
lands preserved
landscape
landscape architect
landscape architecture
landscape gardener
landscape gardening
landscape genetics
landscape painting (current term)
landscaped
landscaper
landscapers
landscapes
landscaping
landscapist
landscapists
landscrip
landscrips
landside
landsides
landskip

Literary usage of Landscape painting

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"In the early days of French landscape painting it is difficult to distinguish between the miniaturists and the painters. Jean Fouquet of Touraine practised ..."

2. The History of Modern Painting by RICHARD. MUTHER (1907)
"It was only in the century of close rooms and over-population, neurosis and holiday colonies, that landscape painting could attain to this fulness, purity, ..."

3. The Story of American Painting: The Evolution of Painting in America from by Charles Henry Caffin (1907)
"... CHAPTER IV iA NATIVE GROWTH OF landscape painting THE most direct outcome of the development of a national spirit was the appearance of the so-called ..."

4. Cosmos: A Sketch of a Physical Description of the Universe by Alexander von Humboldt (1860)
"LANDSCAPE painting, and fresh and vivid descriptions of nature alike conduce ... landscape painting cannot therefore be noticed in any further relation than ..."

5. New Englander and Yale Review by Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight (1890)
"ARTICLE I.—SOME CRITICISMS ON FRENCH LANDSCAPE-PAINTING SUGGESTED BY THE RECENT ... landscape painting does not differ so essentially from any other that ..."

6. American Book Prices Current by Katherine Kyes Leab, Daniel J Leab (1905)
"Imagination in landscape painting. Lond., 1887. Fol. Landscape. Lond., 1885. Sm. fol. Bds. (Large paper), Field, A., May 8, '05. (189) $16. ..."

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