Urban landscape (painting)

In the visual arts , the urban landscape, in contrast to the geographical concept of the urban landscape, is understood as a subject of landscape painting , according to which a city is depicted in its surroundings or sections of a city and its structures.

Subdivision

Works of this genre can be further divided into

• the vedute , which depicts a city panorama , mostly with a view of a river, a canal, a square or a street, which draws the view downwards from a linear perspective,
• Images that deal with the interface between town and country and combine the two subjects vedute and landscape, and
• the urban interior, in which the image detail is limited to just a few buildings.

The first vedute-like city panoramas were created on graphics from the late Middle Ages north of the Alps, especially in the Netherlands and Germany. In 17th century Dutch painting, cityscapes of the second and third types first appeared in the painting. The Venetian vedute began its triumphant advance in the 18th century .

• Urban landscapes in the visual arts
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  Adolf Menzel : Berlin , 1847

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  Ambrogio Lorenzetti : Allegory of Good Government , around 1338

Other uses

• The urban landscape was a model in urban planning in the 20th century, for example by Hans Bernhard Reichow .
• As a literary term, it is used for the aesthetic or situational description of modern urban spaces, as in August Endell's work .

See also

• Urban landscape (geography)
• Cityscape
• Urban landscape
• Urban space

literature

• Hans Bernhard Reichow : Organic urban architecture. From the big city to the urban landscape. tape 1 . Westermann, Braunschweig 1948.

Web links

Commons : Urban landscape  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Commons : Urban landscape in the visual arts  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Wiktionary: Urban landscape  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations