Description: This seminar will examine representations of setting and territory from the Renaissance through the 19th C. in terms of the relationship posited between humankind and nature. Included will be examination of some enduring tropes of interpretation, such as pastoral and wilderness, the picturesque and the sublime, along with the particularities of several "nationalist" landscape traditions. In addition to easel paintings, prints and maps will be considered, with emphasis on the emerging traditions of Germany, the Netherlands, England, and America. Students will be encouraged to choose their own topics, situating particular artists or sites within an interpretive context appropriate to their individual nation and century.