British Landscape Painting

Few nations possess as rich a tradition of landscape painting as England. This book, lavishly illustrated with color and black-and-white plates, sets this tradition against the development of the English countryside and the changing attitudes toward it.
Michael Rosenthal critically surveys the painting of the British landscape from its first real growth in the seventeenth century, when it began under the influence of the Dutch 'topographers', through the heyd... >Voir plus