A survey of panorama paintings
Enigmatic and ambiguous in its role as both setting and subject, the landscape has been one of the
most important genres in painting for centuries. This dedicated survey spans the
late Middle Ages to modern times to bring the evolution of the landscape genre to life through its
most critical works, executed by groundbreaking artists as diverse as
Titian and
Warhol.
As a form, landscapes represent the topography of the natural world as much as our own; reflecting the diversity of earth’s vistas, but also keen
indications of developments in representational aesthetics, religious and political history, notions of the sublime and the romantic, as well as the
arrival of modernity and the vast changes wrought on the environment by industrialization and
urbanization.
Opening this insightful volume is an introductory essay offering a
meticulous overview of the genre and its
most crucial developments. Luscious double-page spreads on each of the 34 featured artworks include a crisp painting reproduction and an extensive art historical analysis on the masters of the form—including such greats as
Hieronymus Bosch, Pieter Bruegel, El Greco, John Constable, Claude Monet, and David Hockney.
The author
Norbert Wolf graduated in art history, linguistics, and medieval studies at the Universities of Regensburg and Munich, and earned his PhD in 1983. He held visiting professorships in Marburg, Frankfurt, Leipzig, Düsseldorf, Nuremberg-Erlangen, and Innsbruck. His extensive writings on art history include many TASCHEN titles, such as Diego Velázquez, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Caspar David Friedrich, Expressionism, Romanesque, Landscape Painting, and Symbolism.
Landscape Painting
Hardcover, 8.3 x 10.2 in., 1.24 lb, 96 pages
ISBN 978-3-8365-5018-5
Edition: English
