These are known as cityscapes. The term landscape painting was developed in the 17th Century. En plein air is a French term that means out of doors. It is used to describe painting outside in the ...

An early landscape painting by Vincent Van Gogh has sold for €7m (£6.2m; $8.3m) at an auction in Paris. Painted in 1882, Fishing Net Menders in the Dunes depicts peasant women working on the ...