Radical Light by Edward Lucie-Smith

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/82771 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Radical Light Series: Studies in World Art, Book 13 Author: Edward Lucie-Smith Narrator: Gerard Marquez Format: mp3 Length: 9 mins Release date: 03-19-19 Ratings: 5 out of 5 stars, 1 rating Genres: History & Criticism Publisher's Summary: It is a historical peculiarity of landscape painting that it begins with the artificial, and only after that proceeds towards the natural. For example, landscape paintings, and especially fanciful Nilotic panoramas, were one of the genres produced by artists in Pompeii. When, with the Renaissance, landscape painting once again started to establish itself after a long interval, the representations of the surrounding world that artists began to produce as a separate and independent genre, rather than simply as a background for human figures, were usually more fanciful than real.