Mayflower Books
1979
ISBN: 0831754133
English
78 pages
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Bo Jeffares shows how landscape painting reflects the way that people interpret the world around them. Since the Middle Ages artists have been creating images that have become part of the popular imagination. An 'ideal' view of nature was first depicted in the 16th century. Later, artists saw landscape in terms of architecture or of light. While 19th-century painters were 'true' to nature, recent artists have interpreted it symbolically. The authoritative text takes into account new research in art history. Over 100 full-color illustrations are complemented by tinted information panels providing specific reference to each major painting, its background and critical interpretations. Artists in this book include Altdorfer, Van Eyck, Bellini, Giorgione, Bruegel, Poussin, Claude, Watteau, Turner, Constable, Courbet, Van Gogh, and Magritte.

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