The classical topics of a landscape in the Italian Renaissance

Abstract

The article, entitled «The Classical Tradition in its Development», included into the present collection research, pays special attention to classical line in landscape of Italian Renaissance, with its Bucolic matter being the essence of it. The author outlines the scheme of ancient Bucolic, correlates it with the analysis of the vision of the Renaissance Pastoral, which is here depicted in development from initial model of the Pastoral to its new, complicated one. The author traces back the traditional interpretation of the Renaissance conception of the Pastoral in its multidimensional nature, and also, in its saturation with Bucolic, literary-mythological, philosophical meanings. This perspective allows concluding that the motif of the Pastoral landscape acquires deep substantive content in Renaissance paintings, thus becoming the constructing basis for other types of landscapes – mythological, biblical, allegorical among them.