... most significant developments in landscape painting occur in Venice. It is here that the landscape becomes more evocative of a certain mood, influenced by the poetry Vergil, whereby the Venetian sensitivity to light and color take landscape to a more naturalistic conclusion. Bellini, Giorgione, and Titian lead the way towards liberating the landscape from the narrative. And although pure landscape paintings had long since been practiced by the Dutch, it was the vision of the ideal landscape that influence the artists of the next three hundred years, following the form of the pastoral ideal. "The artistic revolution initiated by Donatello, Masaccio and Bruneleschi" in the early years of the Renaissance instigated a preoccupation with finding solutions to technical problems in art. The driving forces underlying these inquiries were scientific and mathematical resulting in a formula that imposed an artificial order onto the representation of the natural world. Immediately, one senses the ...

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