How many landscapes largely set the course for the graphic treatment of landscape until the end of the 19th century ?
Landscapes were idealized , mostly reflecting a pastoral ideal drawn from classical poetry which was first fully expressed by Giorgione and the young Titian , and remained associated above all with hilly wooded Italian landscape , which was depicted by artists from Northern Europe who had never visited Italy , just as plain - dwelling literati in China and Japan painted vertiginous mountains .