| Landscape Paintings had got its fullest recognition as a | | | | human race in the nature. These artists honoured and |
| genre in fifteenth century. The artists used the natural | | | | celebrated the looks of the natural environment and |
| scenes to depict the religious imagery and human | | | | they honoured that in every possible ways. |
| activities before this period, too. The medieval paintings | | | | The landscape painting is a subject as wide as the |
| like Garden of Eden and Sea of Galilee or the | | | | Mother Earth itself. These paintings can have endless |
| artworks like Flight into Egypt, theJourney of the Magi | | | | beauty and infinite number of subjects. Under the |
| are the evidences of the importance of putting the | | | | umbrella of Landscape Paintings, we can have |
| landscapes on canvas. The Miniature painters in India, | | | | paintings of countryside, the sea-scape and sky-scape. |
| too, used flora and fauna and the landscape scenes | | | | The works of the masters are the most valuable |
| for decorating their frames during the medieval period. | | | | guide to the artists. The master artists have put their |
| Until the period of 18th century the art of painting the | | | | imaginations and labour to adore the landscapes they |
| landscapes was confined to four walls of the artists' | | | | chose to paint. No list can be a complete list of these |
| studios. There after the painters went outside of their | | | | memorable painters; but looking at the artworks of |
| studios with their easels and colours and brushes to fill | | | | some of the master artists, we can have an idea |
| their canvases. They were full of feeling to reflect their | | | | about who had ploughed into this artistic land called the |
| attitudes towards the nature and the place of the | | | | art of painting landscapes. |