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The Rise of Landscape Painting in the Renaissance
In the Renaissance Europe a time of a very splendid urbanization. How does this affect attitudes towards nature? I think if you look at the great periods of Italian painting, the Conees and Florentine schools in particular, this is the art of the city. The foreground is occupied by human beings, usually of a religious significance in their full city dress. And it's not until much, very much later, when cities had ceased to be fortified, ceased to be at war with each other, that you get the emergence of landscape painting. This comes about really with people at Claude and Poussaint. It's not the city as a fortification, but a city that has
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