The term ‘landscape’ according to the OED was first used by Dutch painters in 1598 to describe pictoral representations of natural scenes on land.  It came from the original Dutch landschap which simply meant, an area of land.  It was initially translated as landskip: ‘In a table donne by Cæsar Sestius where hee had painted Landskipes.’   R. Haydocke tr. G. …

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