Pastoral’s End - James Pilgrim

How early modern Italian painting addressed the ways humans shape and are shaped by their environments. Â In the sixteenth century, Italian artist Jacopo Bassano painted pictures of herdsmen and animals moving through dark and muddy landscapes. But he also participated in the agricultural development of the region in which he lived, producing topographical maps of local mountains and forests, inventing new methods of drainage and irrigation, and studying the latest techniques of crop rotation and... Zobrazit více