About the show:
Landscape in the Renaissance at Los Angeles' J. Paul Getty Museum features 23 illuminated manuscripts and one book from its prestigious collection. Paintings borrowed from Budapest's Szépmüvészeti Múzeum and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art complement the Getty Museum's leaves (pages) on display. The assembled works trace the development of landscape painting in Renaissance Europe, beginning with innovations in the Fourteenth Century, that paralleled those in panel and fresco painting from the same period. The Museum's exhibition explores the late-medieval and Renaissance development of perspective and representations of water, the garden, light, depth, atmosphere and the bird's-eye view in manuscripts and paintings.
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From your Guide: Stan Parchin, Senior Correspondent for Museums and Special Exhibitions, is a regular contributor to About Art History and the author of this feature. You may read all of his Special Exhibition and Catalogue Reviews here.
Landscape in the Renaissance at Los Angeles' J. Paul Getty Museum features 23 illuminated manuscripts and one book from its prestigious collection. Paintings borrowed from Budapest's Szépmüvészeti Múzeum and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art complement the Getty Museum's leaves (pages) on display. The assembled works trace the development of landscape painting in Renaissance Europe, beginning with innovations in the Fourteenth Century, that paralleled those in panel and fresco painting from the same period. The Museum's exhibition explores the late-medieval and Renaissance development of perspective and representations of water, the garden, light, depth, atmosphere and the bird's-eye view in manuscripts and paintings.
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From your Guide: Stan Parchin, Senior Correspondent for Museums and Special Exhibitions, is a regular contributor to About Art History and the author of this feature. You may read all of his Special Exhibition and Catalogue Reviews here.
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- The First Rain in Paradise, ca. 1400-1410Courtesy of the J. Paul Getty Museum; Used with permission
- Saint John on Patmos, ca. 1480-1490Courtesy of the J. Paul Getty Museum; Used with permission
- The Soldiers of Brabant Entering Ravenstein, ca. 1480-1483Courtesy of the J. Paul Getty Museum; Used with permission
- The Annunciation to the Shepherds, late 1470s-early 1480sCourtesy of the J. Paul Getty Museum; Used with permission
- Christ Appearing to Saint James the Greater, ca. 1469-1471Courtesy of the J. Paul Getty Museum; Used with permission
- Graphic Index
- Text Index