World landscape

Baptism of Christ (Joachim Patinier)

Weltlandschaft is a mannerist style of painting established by Joachim Patinier at the beginning of the 16th century . The artist composes an ideal landscape from various elements, such as mountains, seas, rivers, forests, etc., as an overall representation of the universe. While Patinier was still working with biblical or mythological topics, this came about in the course of the 16th century, for example with Pieter Bruegel the Elder. Ä. , in favor of profane representations in the background. This development finally led to a pure landscape.

literature

• Anton Lehmden (Ed.): World landscapes . Residenz Verlag, Salzburg 1968
• Silke von Berswordt-Wallrabe, Volker Rattemeyer (ed.): Landscape as a world view. Art from the 17th century to the present . Wienand Verlag, Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-8683-2033-6

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gabriele Hoffmann: Order and naturalness . Article in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung on January 4, 2006, accessed on February 24, 2018

Web links

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