Village View
- Artist
- Master of the Small Landscapes
- Date
- c.1555 - c.1560
- Style
- Northern renaissance
- Genre
- Landscape
- Location
- Metropolitan Museum of Art (Met)
"Village View" by the Master of the Small Landscapes exemplifies his contribution to the evolution of landscape art during the Northern renaissance. Crafted with delicate paper and masterful pen and ink drawing, this work captures a serene village scene that reflects the artist’s skill in transforming landscape into an independent genre. His drawings and prints, which numbered 44 in a series, played a vital role alongside Pieter Bruegel the Elder in shifting landscape from a mere background to a central subject in art.
Related artworks
- Village View by Master of the Small Landscapes
- The Pond, plate 9 from Regiunculae et Villae Aliquot Ducatus Brabantiae by Master of the Small Landscapes
- Village Road, plate 4 from Regiunculae et Villae Aliquot Ducatus Brabantiae by Master of the Small Landscapes
- Country Village with Post Mill from Multifariarum Casularum Ruriumque Lineamenta Curiose Ad Vivum Expressa by Master of the Small Landscapes
- The Swan's Inn with Farms from the Series The Small Landscapes by Master of the Small Landscapes
- Large Sheds, plate 21 from Regiunculae et Villae Aliquot Ducatus Brabantiae by Master of the Small Landscapes
- Village Road, plate 3 from Regiunculae et Villae Aliquot Ducatus Brabantiae by Master of the Small Landscapes
- Farmstead, Cows and Herdsman in the Foreground from Praediorum Villarum Et Rusticarum Casularum Icones Elenoantissimae Ad Vivum in Apre Deformatae by Master of the Small Landscapes
- Village Street, Hay Stacked in Front of a Farm from Praediorum Villarum Et Rusticarum Casularum Icones Elenoantissimae Ad Vivum in Apre Deformatae by Master of the Small Landscapes
- Village Road with a Farm and Sheds, from the Series, The Small Landscapes (Multifariarum Casularum) by Master of the Small Landscapes