the 18th Century, abetted by the dexterous brushwork of
artists like Wilson, landscape painting rose from "being one
of the lesser genres within the artistic hierarchy to become
the most innovative and dominant of all."
To prove the point, the sizable exhibition, on view at the
Yale Center for British Art in New Haven CT, includes ap-
proximately 120 works by Wilson as well as some 40
pieces by his antecedents, contemporaries and students
who helped spread the transformative gospel of landscape
painting throughout the ateliers of northern Europe.
Simon is co-curator of the show, along with Martin Postle,
Richard Wilson, Rome from the Villa Madama, 1753, oil on canvas,
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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