THE ART OF LANDSCAPE art history course with Eleanor Bird, 10 weekly illustrated talks

Chepstow

Dates: 28/09/2026

Venue: The Drill Hall Chepstow, Lower Church Street, NP16 5HJ

 Image: Monet, San Giorgio Maggiore Twilight 1908 (National Museum of Wales) 

Love looking at paintings, but like to know more? Art history course with popular Monmouthshire lecturer Eleanor Bird, looking at landscapes in paintings from The Renaissance to the 20th century. Monday afternoons 2-4pm starting 28 September ending 7 December (half term break 26 October). online recordings available for any missed lectures. Whole course also available online so you can catch it from wherever you are, whenever you like.

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The Art of Landscape explores this rich vein of painting through 550 years of change. It begins in the Early Renaissance, when artists from van Eyck to Memling and Fra Angelico to Piero della Francesca abandoned gilded backgrounds and began to create realistic settings for their saints and sinners. During the 16th century, landscape received more and more attention from artists such as Lorenzo Lotto, Titian and Pieter Bruegel, then burst into full flower during the Baroque age when Dutch painters reflected their newfound freedom from Spanish rule by celebrating the national landscape.

British art led the way in the 18th century, with Wilson and Gainsborough capturing the spirit of the countryside, laying the ground for those giants of landscape, Constable and Turner. Some of the best known landscape painters such as Monet and Pissarro then emerged in France with the new techniques and everyday scenes of Impressionism.

In the 20th century, colour, form and pattern began to dominate as Modernists and Surrealists – from Matisse to Kandinsky to Dali – used landscape as a springboard to explore their radical artistic world.

 

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