landscape painting
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Summary
landscape painting is a genre of painting[1]. It draws 3,239 Wikipedia views per month (genre of painting category, ranking #5 of 41).[2]
Key Facts
- Depicts: landscape[3]
- Subclass of: painting[4], drawing[5]
- Part of: hierarchy of genres[6]
- Commons category: Landscape paintings[7]
- Topic's main category: Category:Landscape art[8]
- Described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[9], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[10], Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language[11], Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary[12], Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[13]
- Different from: landscaping[14], landscape architecture[15]
- Practiced by: landscape painter[16]
- Significant person: Jacob van Ruisdael[17], Meindert Hobbema[18], Thomas Gainsborough[19], J. M. W. Turner[20], John Constable[21]
Why It Matters
landscape painting has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[22] It is known by 75 alternative names across languages and contexts.[23]