Before the Renaissance, the landscape performed a decorative function. But before the landscape became the bearer of the idea and before it began to help reveal the character of the main characters, and even more so gained independence, a very long time passed. For the first time, we see the image of nature on the reliefs of ancient civilizations that arose…

As a basis for painting, the use of canvas has been known since ancient times. For example, Pliny testifies that the portrait of Nero, painted by one of the artists of that time (I century AD) by order of Nero himself, was executed on canvas, and not on wood, as was customary at that time, and the length of this painting was 40 m. One of the Fayum portraits…