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Welcome to LandscapePainting.com, the internet home of ETRUSCAN
PLACES.
Since
1995 we have offered students of all levels of artistic experience
specialized Landscape Painting Workshops in Italy, the birthplace of
outdoor or "plein air" painting. Course locations put you among the
most beautiful scenery in Tuscany near Buonconvento in the province
of Siena and at historic sites of early open air painting in the
Roman Campagna. Select Courses
for more details.
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Article
by Maddine Insalaco,
Streamlined, in
Fall Issue of
American Artist Plein Air Painting.
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2012 Calendar!
Read feature in American Artist Workshop.
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| "What induces
you, oh man, to depart from your home in town, to leave parents and
friends, and go to the country-side over mountains and valleys, if
it is not the beauty of the world of nature which, on considering,
you can only enjoy through the sense of sight; and as the poet in
this also wants to compete with the painter, why do you not take the
poet's descriptions of such landscapes and stay at home without
exposing yourself to the excessive heat of the sun? Would that
not be more expedient and less fatiguing, since you could stay in a
cool place without moving about and exposing yourself to
illness? But your soul could not enjoy the pleasures that come
to it through the eyes, the windows of its habitation, it could not
receive the reflections of bright places, it could not see the many
flowers which with their various colours compose harmonies for the
eye, nor all the other things which may present themselves to the
eye." Leonardo da Vinci, The 'Paragone
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