Question

Read the article about the history of landscape painting, and view the selected examples of landscape paintings. Then write

Answer 1

Answer:

Landscape was an established genre in Chinese art by the 4th century, but in western art, landscape painting doesn't really begin until after the era of Renaissance art in the sixteenth century. Of course many painters, from Roman times onwards, had included scenic views in their paintings, but these were ancillary to the main theme of the painting. The main problem with landscape was that it ranked very low in the academic hierarchy of the genres. This hierarchy