Landscape Drawing in Europe: 1500–1800 : The Experience of Place

Landscape Drawing in the Making is the first volume on the history and theory of landscape drawing in early modern Europe.

This book explores the experience of landscape in its various configurations through the lens of the process of drawing nature over three centuries, and argues for the importance of landscape drawing as independent works of art.

Contributors to the book include scholars and drawing experts working in public museums, private collections and academic institutions, who provide analyses of diverse geographical and cultural contexts as well as original case studies of artistic practice. Bringing together art history, art theory and material culture, the book explores the role of the artists’ physical experience of the landscape as well as their reconstruction of imagined landscapes, offering new perspectives on the process of understanding landscape forms and their meanings through images.

The texts cover a wide geographical range: from Italian and Northern European art to the Chinese impact on European landscape visualization through drawing. Essays are organised in three sections: Materiality, Experience, Practice.