Artists have expressed deep connections to nature throughout history.
Scroll down to learn about18 famous landscape paintingsfrom art history.
Discover 18 famous landscape paintings.
Although there are human figures in the composition, they are dominated by grandiose nature.
Here, the verdant landscape is not merely decorative, but a prominent part of the composition.
His paintingThe Hunters in the Snowwas part of a series dedicated to portraying different times of the year.
Fan Kuan, “Travelers Among Mountains and Streams,” c. 1000 (Photo: National Palace Museum viaWikimedia Commons, Public domain)
El Greco,View of Toledo,c.
His uniquely radical style left a lasting impact on the course of art history.
It features a striking blue-black sky that feels like on the verge of a storm.
Guo Xi, “Early Spring,” 1072 (Photo: National Palace Museum viaWikimedia Commons, Public domain)
It is referred to as one of the most famous depictions of the sky.
Through the thick fog, jagged cliffs and rocky mountains topped with trees emerge in the distance.
J. M. W. Turner,Rain, Steam and Speed The Great Western Railway, 1844
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Giorgione, “The Tempest,” c. 1505 (Photo:Wikimedia Commons, Public domain)
His work,Looking Down Yosemite Valley, Californiacaptures a magnificent image of the untouched landscape.
Pieter Bruegel the Elder, “The Hunters in the Snow,” 1565 (Photo: Kunsthistorisches Museum viaWikimedia Commons, Public domain)
Annibale Carracci, “Fishing,” 1585–1588 (Photo: Louvre viaWikimedia Commons, Public domain)
El Greco, “View of Toledo,” c. 1596–1600 (Photo: The Met viaWikimedia Commons, Public domain)
Claude Lorrain, “Pastoral Landscape: The Roman Campagna,” c. 1639 (Photo: The Met viaWikimedia Commons, Public domain)
Nicolas Poussin, “The Spring,” 1660–1664 (Photo: Louvre viaWikimedia Commons, Public domain)
Canaletto, “The Grand Canal and Santa Maria della Salute,” 1738–1742 (Photo:Wikimedia Commons, Public domain)
Caspar David Friedrich, “Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog,” c. 1817 (Photo: Hamburger Kunsthalle viaWikimedia Commons, Public domain)
John Constable, “The Hay Wain,” 1821 (Photo: National Gallery viaWikimedia Commons, Public domain)
Thomas Cole, “View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm—The Oxbow,” 1836 (Photo: The Met viaWikimedia Commons, Public domain)
J.M.W. Turner, “Rain, Steam and Speed – The Great Western Railway,” 1844 (Photo: National Gallery viaWikimedia Commons, Public domain)
Albert Bierstadt, “Looking Down Yosemite Valley, California,” 1865 (Photo: Birmingham Museum of Art viaWikimedia Commons, Public domain)
Claude Monet, “Impression, Sunrise,” 1872 (Photo: Musée Marmottan Monet viaWikimedia Commons, Public domain)
Paul Cézanne, “Mont Sainte-Victoire with Large Pine,” c. 1887 (Photo: Courtauld Institute of Art viaWikimedia Commons, Public domain)
Vincent van Gogh, “The Starry Night,” 1889 (Photo: MoMA viaWikimedia Commons, Public domain)
