landscape painting: The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

Claude Lorrain was supreme master of this genre. His serene pastoral works and the heroic compositions of Poussin contrasted with the concurrent Dutch tendency toward realism. The great 17th-century Dutch landscape masters from van Goyen to Ruisdael, Hobbema, and Rembrandt transformed into paint what they saw in the Dutch countryside (see Dutch art). The Rococo saw a revival of ideal pastoral scenes in the works of Watteau and Gainsborough. The 18th-century Englishman Thomas Girtin was an important influence on future landscape painting.

Sections in this article:

• Introduction
• Landscape Art in the East
• The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
• The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
• The Renaissance and the Sixteenth Century
• Early Landscapes
• Bibliography

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