LANDSCAPE CHINA The tradition of SHAN SHUI

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CHINA The tradition of SHAN SHUI The tradition of MOUNTAIN- WATER

Giotto di Bondone ( 1266 -1337) He began to acknowledge nature in his work, introducing elements of the landscape as the background setting for the action of the figures in his paintings,

FRANS Post ( 1612 -1680)

England In England, landscapes had initially been mostly backgrounds to portraits, typically suggesting the parks or estates of a landowner, though mostly painted in London by an artist who had never visited his sitter's rolling acres.

Anthony van Dyck ( 15991641) the English tradition was founded by Anthony van Dyck and other mostly Flemish artists working in England.

By the beginning of the 19 th century the English artists with the highest modern reputations were mostly dedicated landscapists, showing the wide range of Romantic interpretations of the English landscape found in the works of John Constable, J. M. W. Turner and Samuel Palmer.

The Hudson River School was a mid-19 th century American art movement embodied by a group of landscape painters whose aesthetic vision was influenced by romanticism.

Thomas Cole (1801 -1848) The founder of the Hudson River School.

The Embarkation of the Queen of Sheba

Claude Lorrain (1604 -1682) Claude was born in 1604. His actual name was Claude Gellée, but he is better known by the province in which he was born. v Claude's earliest surviving pictures have usually been dated to around 1630. v