Landscape comprises the visible features of an area of
land, including physical elements such as landforms, living elements
of flora and fauna, abstract elements such as lighting and weather conditions,
and human elements, for instance human activity or the built environment.
The word landscape comes from the Dutch word landschap,
from land (directly equivalent to the English word land) and the
suffix -schap,
corresponding to the English suffix "-ship".
Landscape, first recorded in 1598, was borrowed as a painters' term
from Dutch during the 16th century, when Dutch artists were on the
verge of becoming masters of the landscape genre. The Dutch word landschap
had earlier meant simply 'region, tract of land' but had acquired
the artistic sense, which it brought over into English, of 'a picture
depicting scenery on land'.
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