World landscape
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The world landscape, a translation of the German Weltlandschaft, is a type of composition in Western painting showing an imaginary panoramic landscape seen from an elevated viewpoint that includes mou
Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Landscape with the Flight into Egypt, 1563, 37.1 × 55.6 cm (14.6 × 21.9 in)
Detail from Patinir's St Jerome (National Gallery), between formations in the vicinity of Dinant.
Landscape with Charon Crossing the Styx, Joachim Patinir, c. 1515–1524, Prado
Rest on the Flight into Egypt, Cornelis Massys, c. 1540
Joachim Patinir
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Joachim Patinir, also called Patenier, was a Flemish Renaissance painter of history and landscape subjects. He was born in Wallonia, but in his mature career worked in Antwerp, then the centre of the
World landscape
…this narrative element are dwarfed by their surroundings. The world landscape first appeared in painting in the work of the Early Netherlandish painter Joachim Patinir (c. 1480–1524), most of whose few surviving paintings are of this type, usually showing religious subjects, but commissioned by secular patrons. "They…
Portrait of Joachim Patinir by Aegidius Sadeler after Dürer
Landscape with the Flight into Egypt, oil on panel, 17 × 21 cm, Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp
The Baptism of Christ, oil on oak, 59.5 × 77 cm, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna