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Renaissance Discoveries: Landscape Painting

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We tend to associate the Italian Renaissance with the human form such as we find in the sculptures of Michelangelo or the portraits of Leonardo da Vinci—reflections of how man had become ‘the measure of all things’. But in tandem with this concern for the appearance of the human body was a concern for the appearance and importance of the natural world, including the physical landscape of the countryside. A people such as the Florentines, devoted to beauty as they were, could not help but appreciate the glorious scenery of hills, valleys, blue skies and sunshine that surrounded them. It’s therefore no surprise that the landscape came to feature in some of the pioneering art of the 1400s.
This video looks at cultural attitudes towards the landscape throughout Western history, from the ancient Romans, through the Christian Middle Ages, and into the 1400s. Paintings we look at include ones by Alesso Baldovinetti, Domenico Ghirlandaio, and Leonardo da Vinci, whose Mona Lisa is, among other things, a spectacular example of landscape painting.
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