Art
The geology of our planet's diverse landscape has provided artists throughout the ages with infinite subject matter. "What anatomy is to the figure painter, such is geology to a landscape artist" said Miss Lizzie J. Williams in 1872.
Web links:
- Kansas Geology as Landscape Art: Interpretation of Geology from Artistic Works
- The Anatomy of Nature: Geology and American Landscape Painting, 1825-1875
- Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)
- Stone sculpture
"The stratified stones of the mountains are all layers
of clay, deposited one above the other by the various floods of the rivers
. . . In every concavity at the summit of the mountains we shall always
find the divisions of strata in the rocks."
Leonardo da Vinci, 1452–1519.
Leonardo da Vinci, 1452–1519.