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''Fine art is knowledge made visible.'' }}
''Fine art is knowledge made visible.'' }}
In the 19th century landscape painting gained a new supremacy due to the artworks of painters of the [[Barbizon School]] such as [[Theodore Rousseau]] and Charles Daubigny, or the Revolutionary artist Gustave Courbet, who pushed the boundaries of landscape painting even further, and the Impressionists whom devoted most of their careers to studying and painting the landscape; The influence of Courbet extended well beyond [[Impressionism]], impacting the work of [[Paul Cézanne]] and [[Vincent Van Gogh]], as well as painters in the 20th century. [http://www.getty.edu/education/teachers/classroom_resources/curricula/landscapes/background1.html]
In 1872 he moved to Switzerland where he died in 1877 after painting the rough Swiss terrain.
In 1872 he moved to Switzerland where he died in 1877 after painting the rough Swiss terrain.