The appeal of landscapes to Japanese artists was that they found peace in looking at such a landscape as a cherry blossom tree or a river flowing over rocks. When Japanese artists painted landscapes they where trying to find peace within them self's and hoping they could help others achieve peace as well.
<span>A Compositional Triangle is utilized in the Rape of the Sabine Women by Nicolas Poussins. It borrows a renaissance technique for structuring a balanced composition. </span>
