Landscape painting is one of the main art genres. The term means that a painting depicts a natural scene, usually a wide vista. Most of the time the scenery is copied from reality, but sometimes it could be totally imaginary. An important element of these painting is the weather: the sun over the glistening sea or after the rain.
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This fresco from Santorini, Greece is named after a specific Season. Do you know which?
Fresco from Therra, 16th Century BCE, National Archaeological Museum, Athens, Greece.
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Art Historian, she graduated from the Department of History and Archeology of the University of Athens and has an MA in Art History from the University of Sussex. She is a member of the Association of Greek Art Historians. Her articles have been published in Ta Nea tis Technis and avopolis.gr.
