Painted Prints - The Revelation  of Color
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Landscape with Large Pine

How was this image a "first " in European art?

Altdorfer’s landscape etchings were the first prints in European art with landscape as their sole subject. This etching depicts a lone pine tree on a ridge overlooking a mountainous terrain. Several houses are situated in the valleys between the mountain peaks.
Compare this print to one of Altdorfer’s landscape drawings.
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