Landscape art depicts scenery such as mountains, valleys, trees, rivers, and forests. Sky is almost always included in the view, and weather usually is an element of the composition. In the first century B.C., Roman frescoes of landscapes decorated rooms that have been preserved at Pompeii and Herculaneum. Traditionally, landscape art depicts the surface of the earth, but there are other sorts of landscapes, such as moonscapes.
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Landscape art
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Exhibitions created about this subject:
- Turner to Monet: The triumph of landscape
- Earl Cunningham's America
- Oh ChiGyun: Defining Landscape
- Nature as Artifice: Dutch Landscape in Contemporary Photography
- Aelbert Cuyp
- John Twachtman: Connecticut Landscapes
- The Discovery of Landscape: Masterpieces of Netherlandish Art of the 16th and 17th Centuries
- Pride of Place: Dutch Cityscapes of the Golden Age
- Asher B. Durand (1796-1886), Dean of American Landscape
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