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Allegory of Good and Evil Government
After the fall of the Roman Empire, landscape painting had no relevance in the Western world during the Middle Ages. Between the XIII and XIV century, the natural impulse of the great Giotto di Bondone (who is said to have started in the art chalk drawing sheep on the rocks) slowly begins to introduce landscape painting, as seen in his frescoes of “The flight into Egypt” or “Joachim among the shepherds.” Read the rest of this entry »