Teaching Packet

Landscape Paintings from the National Gallery of Art

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This program traces changing attitudes toward landscape painting from the Renaissance to the 20th century. Landscape painting in the European tradition first served as a vehicle for religious symbolism and later as the setting for religion, mythological, literary, and historical subjects. Dutch painters of the 17th century were among the first to treat landscape as a subject in its own right, and the subject became increasingly popular in the 18th and 19th centuries.

The Landscape Paintings from the National Gallery of Art loan packet includes:

  • a 20-page booklet
  • an image CD.

Artists included: Giovanni Bellini, Paul Cézanne, Thomas Cole, Gustave Courbet, Martin Johnson Heade, George Inness, Joan Míro, Claude Monet, Rembrandt van Rijn, and Joseph Mallord William Turner.

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