1. Vue.
2. Panorama.
3. Représentation picturale.
ETYM Eng.
1. Rural regions.
2. The inhabitants of a countryside.
ETYM Formerly written also landskip.
1. A genre of art dealing with the depiction of natural scenery; SYN. landscape painting.
2. A painting depicting an expanse of natural scenery.
3. An expanse of scenery that can be seen in a single view.
Painting genre depicting natural scenery. In China, landscape painting was well established by the 8th century. In the West, it did not emerge as a distinct genre until the early 16th century, although backdrops of natural scenery were used from Roman times. It flourished in 17th-century Holland (Hobbema, Ruisdael) and France (Poussin, Claude Lorrain), in 18th-century Italy (Canaletto, Guardi), and in 19th-century England (Constable, Turner, Cotman). Examples include Hobbema’s The Avenue, Middelharnis 1689 (National Gallery, London), Constable’s The Haywain 1821 (National Gallery, London), and Cézanne’s Aix: Rocky Landscape 1885–87 (Tate Gallery, London).
Altdorfer’s Landscape with a Footbridge about 1520 (National Gallery, London) is the first true landscape in Western art, although enhancement of the natural setting is evident in earlier works by Giorgione and Patinir.
(French) Landscape.