作为背景和题材的神秘和模糊，风景画是几个世纪以来最重要的绘画流派之一。这项专门的研究从中世纪晚期到现代，通过最重要的作品，将景观类型的进化带到了生活中，本书由提香和沃霍尔等不同的艺术家所执行的。

作为一种形式，风景代表了自然世界的地形和我们自己。反映了地球景观的多样性，同时也反映了表征美学，宗教和政治历史的发展，崇高和浪漫的概念，以及现代化的到来以及巨大的变化。

这本书的开篇是一篇介绍性的文章，对这**派及其最重要的发展作了细致的概述。在这34幅作品中，每一幅都有一幅精美的双页，其中包括一幅清晰的画作复印件，以及一幅关于艺术大师的广泛艺术历史分析，如耶罗尼米斯•博斯， 勃鲁盖尔，埃尔•格列柯，约翰•康斯特布尔，莫奈，及大卫•霍克尼。

Contemplate the Immensity
A survey of panorama paintings

Enigmatic and ambiguous in its role as both setting and subject, the landscape has been one of themost important genres in painting for centuries. This dedicated survey spans from 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 thearrival of modernity and the vast changes wrought on the environment by industrialization andurbanization.

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 Brueghel, El Greco, John Constable, Claude Monet, and David Hockney.

"Ground is to the landscape painter what the naked human body is to the historical."