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Landscape art depicts scenery such as mountains, valleys, trees, rivers, and forests. Sky is almost always included in the view, and weather usually is an element of the composition.In the first century A.D., Roman frescoes of landscapes decorated rooms that have been preserved at Pompeii and Herculaneum. Traditionally, landscape art depicts the surface of the earth, but there are other sorts of landscapes, such as moonscape, for example. The word landscape is from the Dutch, landschap meaning... full article at wikipedia
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Created by Metaweb Oct 23, 2006
Last edited by faye Jul 18, 2008

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