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' Cityscape Painting
Evena 本Msory Survey of modern or contemporary art wi
lnds0ape makes up a substantial part of the artistie 語 S 計 讓
關 importance may be obvious, its origins are much less so 了
consensus about the exact date of birth of the first city 1 全 說 才
agreememt as to aprecise date for the start of Gi開 painting 全約 FFresco,
anaerjal view of a coastal city that'datesifrom Trojan Rome in (8 first 品生 gf
the frst millenniumuis the earliest known cityscape painting. Of course, that is no
reason to assume thatitis the first of its genmre-
During the Middle Ages, representatioris Of clties can be found as backgrounds
inmanyilluminated manuscripts, but 個ey were never aoeerded more than
secondary roles in those compositions. The late thirteenth and early fourteenth
century brought a revival offreedom of expression in Westerm art as 站began
throwing off the Wi constralints of the Byzantine tradition. ltwas during this period
that Ambrogio Lorenzetti painted the fresco known as “City by牛e Sea , often cited
fs as the first true cityscape inthe history of Westerm art.
arked by Lorenzetti did not'eome intofull
The interest in cityscape painting sp
However, small cityscapes doappear as
flowerin ltaly until the late 15th century. -
backgrounds in some works by the most famous painters 0f the intel ng MG
centuries. At that time, some Venetian painters, most notably Vittore arpaccio and
3 Gentile Bellini, created what can be considered the first “golden age”of cityscape
painting in Western Art, a short but remarkable tothe scenic ita painting
that was soon to come- :
curred in ltaly, many ofthe most importamt
In northern Eurobpe, much as OC ) :
cities only ina supporting capacity for their
4 epictin
painters of that era began depicttng 同 二 信實 語人sa stunning
resentation,
primary subject. In one 6
representation ofariver city. Despite
the city is not accorded “leading role” status in
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