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The direct appreciation of nature and its usage as a specific subject for art, is a relatively recent notion. Before the seventeenth century landscape was usualy merely a background to portraits or history painting (certainly this is mostly true of the western world).
During the seventeenth-century many painters began to depict the landscapes of classical Greece and Rome, this was called classical landscape. The French Academy placed lanscapes as fourth (of five) in its hierarchy of genres.
Landscape painting became increasingly popular through the eighteenth century, but it was the nineteenth century, that saw an espousal of naturalistic landscapes. It is surmised that this was a reaction to industrialisation and urbanisation, and the belief that nature shows God’s work more clearly.
In Britain Constable and Turner were in the vanguard of this movement, it was later taken on by French Impressionists. The genre soon emcompassed industrial and urban landscapes.
(Source: tate.org.uk)
Landscape painting 1000-1549
Sui-Tang-Song Dynasties, Sienese School, Yuan Dynasty,
Ming Dynasty, Renaissance, Venetian School
and Northern Renaissance
Note: the image sources are accredited at the linked page
 Travellers |  Good Govrnmnt |  Still Streams |
 Lofty Mount Lu |  Hunt in the Forest |  Earthly Delights |
 The Tempest |  Clearing Snow… |  Battle at Issus |
[1550]
Landscape painting 1550 -1750
Baroque, Mannerism and Dutch Golden Age
Note: the image sources are accredited at the linked page
 Triumph of Death |  Hunters in Snow |  Great Fish Market |
 View of Toledo |  River and ferry |  View of Delft |
 Mill at Wijk |  Stonemason’s… |  Grand Canal |
[1750]
Landscape painting 1750 -1850
Romanticism, Norwich School and Heian Yamato-e
Note: the image sources are accredited at the linked page
[1850]
Landscape painting 1850 -1869
Romanticism, Barbizon, Biedemeier, Norwich School,
Victorian Art, Luminism, Hague School
and Eclecticism/Machiaioli
Note: the image sources are accredited at the linked page
 Ninth Wave |  Oak Trees Pond |  Romantic Scene |
 On the Broads |  Beech Tree |  Pegwell Bay |
 Thunder Storm |  Cows, puddle |  Cypresses |
[1870]
Landscape painting 1870 -1879
Impressionism and Peredvizhinki
Note: the image sources are accredited at the linked page
[1880]
Landscape painting 1880 -1889
Symbolism, Peredvizhinki, , Eclecticism/Machiaioli, Divisionism, and Post Impressionism
Note: the image sources are accredited at the linked page
[1890]
Landscape painting 1890 -1899
Victorian Art, Post Impressionism, Cos Cob Colony and Ashcan
Note: the image sources are accredited at the linked page
 Highlands |  Wheatfield Crows |  Winter Harmony |
 Haystack |  Bridge in the Sun |  Low Tide |
 Montmartre |  Green Harmony |  NY Cross Streets |
[1900]
Landscape painting 1900 -1920
Post Impressionism, Divisionism, Naive Art,
Realism and Art Nouveau
Note: the image sources are accredited at the linked page
 Fog at Houses |  Sainte-Victoire |  Collioure |
 Lion’s repast |  Loing banks |  Cagnes Cypresses |
 The Dream |  Neptune’s Horses |  Avenue Schloss |
[1920]
Landscape painting 1920-
Naive Art, Socialist Realism, Modern Art, Realism, Expressionism, Surrealism and Pop-Art
Note: the image sources are accredited at the linked page
 The Farm |  Transport… |  Haskell’s House |
 Lighthouse |  Classic Landscape |  Persistence… |
 New Moscow |  Thames View |  Seascape |
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