How to Compose a Landscape: Reflections on Procedure in César Aira’s An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter by Anne C McConnell

“…In César Aira’s short novel, An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter, the narrator describes the work and travels of German landscape painter, Johann Moritz Rugendas, in the Argentinian countryside. …”
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Constable / by 245942 Rosenthal, Michael

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Chinese landscape painting / by 184212 Lee, Sherman E.

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The paintings of Samuel Palmer / by 287953 Lister, Raymond

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From the Blitz to the Boer War, Re-presenting (Inter)National and Colonial Wars and Personal Traumas: Craig Higginson’s The Landscape Painter as a lyrical epic by Mathilde Rogez

“…Written from a country still probing its own wounds almost a century and half later, The Landscape Painter (2011), Craig Higginson’s fourth novel, intertwines representations of conflicts in both the then colony and the metropolis, and combines genres and mediums: in the same way the painter of the title alternates between the sublime and the picturesque, the author mingles the lyrical, the epic and the plaasroman (or farm novel), so as to question traditional national narratives. …”
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French landscape drawing sketches of the eighteenth century : catalogue of a loan exhibition from the Louvre and other French Museums at the Department of Prints and Drawings in th...

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The Artist and His Circle. Russian Emigre Artist Eugene Klimoff by Romanova Elena O.

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Le périple méditerranéen d’Antoine-Laurent Castellan et les tribulations d’une carrière entre littérature et peinture by Roxana Monah

“…Antoine-Laurent Castellan, a historic landscape painter, takes, between 1796 and 1799, a long journey into the Mediterranean basin, as he joins the mission of engineer Ferregeau, set out to accomplish construction work in the port of Constantinople. …”
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Drawing and Narration in some Calabrian Views of Edward Lear by Maria Rossana Caniglia, Maria Fiorillo

“…In the literature and iconography of journeys to Calabria between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, it is difficult to find a more successful work than Edward Lear's Journal of a Landscape Painter in Southern Calabria regarding the level of integration between textual narration and visual narration. …”
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Turner and the Mystery of the Sea by Malcolm Andrews

“…The great English landscape painter J.M.W.Turner was an anomalous presence in Victorian England. …”
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The Phlegraean and Neapolitan landscape in Prosper Barbot’s drawings by Matteo Borriello

“…The work of the French architect and landscape painter Prosper Barbot is part of this context, thanks to two trips undertaken at the beginning of the XIX century, he draws up a corpus of drawings in which, through a technique that is anything but static, shows an image of the places visited completely new and personal. …”
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Denon’s Journey in Sicily and Greek Templar Architecture by Stefano Piazza

“…It included Dominique Vivante Denon, the architects Jean Louis Desprez and Jean-Augustin Renard, and the landscape painter Claude Louis Châtelet. The aim of the team was twofold: on the one hand, to portray and describe the most impressive urban and natural scenarios, aiming at a commercial profit for the publishing company; on the other hand, the meticulous study of antiquity − and in particular of Greek or supposedly Greek architecture − linked to the personal and also educational interests of Denon and the two young architects and supported by strenuous activity in the field that went beyond the assignment given by the publishers. …”
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Drawing the Masters: The Formation of Giovan Battista Bassi and the Methods of the Accademia Clementina by Cellura, Orfeo

“… This article expands our understanding of the formation and early career of the landscape painter Giovan Battista Bassi (Massa Lombarda, 1784-Rome, 1852), and, in particular, of his time at the Accademia Clementina in Bologna. …”
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Alessandro Morani e il passato by Piccioni, Matteo

“… Alessandro Morani is one of the leading figures of the artistic world of the late 19th century in Rome. A landscape painter who had trained in the entourage of Nino Costa, he is better known as the founder of the ‘In Arte Libertas’ group in 1886 and for his connection with Gabriele D’Annunzio. …”
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A German artist and his ties with the Romanian royal family - reflections on August Becker (1821-1887) and his role in 19th century European landscape painting by Selke, Raimond, Schaar, Torsten

“…This article relates to new findings concerning the life, work, and influence of the 19th century German landscape painter, August Becker (Darmstadt 1821-1887 Düsseldorf). …”
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The Saint-Non Expedition in Eastern Sicily: from Messina to Catania between Landscape and Antiquity by Francesca Passalacqua

“…This diary will be the main reference of this paper that intends to retrace the journey from Messina to Catania, along the traces of the roads of eastern Sicily, also through the images handed down by the artists who accompanied him: the landscape painter Claude-Louis Châtelet and the architects Louis-Jean Desprez and Jean-Augustin Renard.…”
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Land of Chabot by Saskia de Wit, Andre Dekker

“…When the polders were still expansive, with an omnipresent horizon, and big skies, they were depicted extensively by the Dutch landscape painter Henk Chabot (1894-1949). Chabot is the Rotterdam painter of an oeuvre that is associated with angular, realistic expressionism of many layers of paint in hard colours, who painted heavily emphasised skies over poor countryside, or monumental portraits of refugees or farmers. …”
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A common language of landscape representation: New Zealand and California painting in the nineteenth century by Heath Schenker

“…In the nineteenth century, landscape painters in California and New Zealand shared a common language of landscape representation, looking at untamed coasts and rugged mountains through a lens shaped by two centuries of European artistic tradition. …”
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« Au cœur des Andes » : les toiles de Frederic Church inspirées par l’Amérique du Sud by Pierre-François Peirano

“…Frederic Church, one of the most famous 19th-century American landscape painters, made two trips in South America during the 1850s, which turned out to be decisive in the evolution of his art. …”
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Peindre la terre américaine pour construire la nation : l'École du Sublime by Bernadette Rigal-Cellard

“…This chapter intends to show how nineteenth century landscape painters participated in the nation building efforts common to politicians and writers. …”
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