Landscape art

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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 moonscapes, for example.

The word landscape is from the Dutch, landschap meaning a sheaf, a patch  of cultivated ground. The word entered the English vocabulary of the connoisseur  in the late 17th century.