This book presents a new look at landscape painting in the nineteenth century as it transformed from the depiction of known places to explorations of mood and time passing. Masterpieces in oil and watercolor illustrate the genre from its predominance in Britain to extraordinary manifestations in France, Germany and the rest of Europe. Turner to Monet shows the spread of landscape painting to new territories where European artists in Australia, Asia and the Americas extended the Western tradition.

Prime Minister's foreword

Director's foreword

The triumph of landscape painting Ron Radford

Science and the Sublime: nature as spectacle Lucina Ward

Nature becomes art: landscape and modernism Christine Dixon

Catalogue of works

Credits

Index