Landscape painting

Lanndscape painting is a style of painting that deals with showing landscapes. The landscapes can be natural ones, or those modified by humans. They can be real or imagined.

Other painting-styles include history painting, genre painting, portrait painting and still life,

Gallery

Fresco from Akrotiri, on the Greek island Santorin. This fresco was done about 1600 BC.
Paul Bril, Phantastic mountain scene, 16th century.
Claude Lorrain, Harbour with the Villa Medici. 17th century
Caspar David Friedrich, Monk at the seaside, 19th century
Claude Monet, Impression soleil levant, 1872. This painting started a movement called impressionism.
Paul Cézanne, House in Provence, 19th century

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