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In the world, there's a variety of landscapes that take more than one person's breath away. But what is a landscape? Surely when you hear the word you picture a beautiful beach, or some huge, green mountains.

Landscapes are quite a spectacle! And their meaning changes depending on the branch or field that studies them. In general, a landscape is a place seen from a specific point, usually to be admired.

That's why, since the 17th century, landscape painting became an important aspect of painting, one that managed to portray, in a beautiful and artistic way, a landscape characterized by certain visual elements that are pleasing to the eye.

If you want to learn more about landscapes, then come with us. At Coloring Together we want to teach you much more about these magical places, so we added interesting information above the images to print and color.

Are you ready? Don't think twice, it's time to put that creativity to work and add color to the landscape pictures to print and color.

1. Cultivating plants, creating abstract elements and structures, and giving shape to natural elements are all part of landscaping. Landscaping is an artistic technique that modifies the physical and visible characteristics of a place. Astonishing!
2. Landscaping is considered a science! Because it requires skills like observation, creativity, organization, planning, and imagination. In addition, a landscape artist must have knowledge of architecture, art, sociology, geography, and other fields.
3. Landscaping emerged in the Renaissance as an art, although ancient civilizations, like the Persian and Egyptian ones, already practiced it.
4. China is credited with the "discovery" of landscape as a pictorial element, starting in the 5th century, due to the great influence that Buddhism has in relation to landscapes.
5. The "cosmic landscape" is a kind of artistic landscape that depicts wild nature, with landscapes that aren't necessarily real. Astonishing!
6. In medieval times landscaping wasn't a very recognized activity, but it was taken up again in the Renaissance in Europe, where planting designs with aesthetic purposes began to appear.
7. Colonized landscaping, or "colonized nature," is a type of artistic landscaping that depicts nature, such as valleys and hills, "colonized" by human beings. In these paintings it's common to see crops, roads, cities, among others.
8. Did you know there's a European Landscape Convention? It's in charge of establishing measures for the protection, planning, and management of European landscapes. Do you know what for? To preserve and improve their quality.
9. For architecture, the landscape is a very important element, so much so that in 1828 the term "landscape architecture" was coined by Gilbert Laing Meason.
10. During the 19th century, landscaping became an important element for urban planning. The most representative example of this is Central Park, in New York.
11. One of the most famous landscape paintings in the world is "The Starry Night" by Vincent Van Gogh, created in 1889, after several fits of madness by its painter.
12. Canaletto, also known as Giovanni Antonio Canal, was considered the pioneer of the urban landscape, depicting the canals of Venice in his works.
13. Do you think there's romance in landscaping? Of course there is! In the 19th century, Romanticism and landscaping became a genre of great importance, as the artist was drawn to the untamable side of nature, its tragic and sublime quality.
14. When Impressionism arrived as an artistic movement, painters left their workshops and went out into the countryside to portray their landscapes, without seeking realistic results. Painting in the open air! That, without a doubt, must be a beautiful experience.
15. Historically there were few female landscape artists, since it was believed that the life of a landscape painter was unsuitable for women. In addition, this kind of painting required spending days or weeks painting a landscape. It really was tough in the 19th century!