Landscape in world painting

The landscape rather early became a necessary background for narration about a person, his fate, the events of his life and experiences. Carefully discharged the masters of distant mountains on the horizon, the beauty of idealized cities or luxury of exquisite gardens, reminiscent of Rae. The image of the natural environment surrounding the human environment was originally built as recognizable and reliable. In this sense, the landscape is realistic, although realism took shape as an independent style only in the XIX century. In the following centuries, landscape develops, national landscape traditions arise, many exceptional beauty and depths of the canvase are created. All this reader can learn from the book. The book is addressed to a wide circle of readers. It will find a lot of interesting art lovers, and professionals - artists and art historians