{Utopian Landscapes}*[28th April 1991]

[Redbook9:198-200][19910428:0955l]{Utopian Landscapes}*[28th April 1991]

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I don’t think its an original idea to link landscape paintings with political utopias – but it’s interesting to see if there are long-cycle correlations.

‘Landscape, as the earthly setting of Man’s activity, makes its first modest and timid beginnings in this [Renaissance] period.’** – ie the 15^th and 16^th centuries [ce], basically around (2048G~)1536[ce].

However, there is a genre operating on the same basis as landscape painting a great deal earlier, and that is found in the preserved murals of Pompeii from c[irca[70BCE, where the illusion of exterior worlds (urban or rural) without human figures*** was carefully created on interior walls. It is not possible to know whether this was done earlier, and/or elsewhere than Italy, given the scarcity of evidence, but it seems fairly clear that it did not occur after the early 1^st century CE, anywhere in Europe at least (China is another matter: at least as early as c[irca]1000CE).**** (Presumably if landscape painting had been practised after about 500CE at the latest, one would have expected some to have survived, somewhere.)

*{(cf [last previous ts journal entry] above↑)}

**quoted [at] [[Redbook9:187][19910424:0902d]{The Renaissance}[24th April 1991],] 187

(ibid [Encyclopaedia Britannica 25:] 343)

***eg E[ncyclopaedia of] V[isual] A[rt] 2:181, 182

****[&/but see eg [Redbook9:151][19910421:1410d]{[Islamic Art –] Visual Arts [continued –] The Great Mosque at Damascus [continued]}[21st April 1991]&ant (circa 706-14ce);

[Redbook9:168][19910421:1410oo]{[Islamic Art –] Visual Arts [continued –] Late arts of the book (1) [continued (3)]}[21st April 1991] (circa 1440ce);

[Redbook9:144][19910420:0953ee]{[Islamic Art –] Visual Arts [continued –] Late Period of Islamic Art [continued (7)]}[20th April 1991](circa1600ce)]

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