Landscape Painting and Chinese Art

Heilbrunn Timeline, Metropolitan Museum of Art

Mountains and Water, British Museum

"Chinese artists do not usually paint real places but imaginary, idealized landscapes. The Chinese phrase woyou expresses this idea of 'wandering while lying down'. In China, mountains are associated with religion because they reach up towards the heavens. People therefore believe that looking at paintings of mountains is good for the soul".

China Online Museum

Chinese Landscape Painting

The Chinese Garden

Chinese Art: A Guide to Motifs and Vusual Imagery

The Art of the Landscape (landscape artists, including Chinese artists)

The development of landscape art

Landscape Art, A Timeline

Landscape Art (Wikipedia)

And an image from Ancient Egypt