Description
Artists have always been inspired by nature, however, it wasn’t until the Renaissance period that seascape paintings started becoming more popular.
The term “seascape” was coined around 1790 and was used to refer to paintings which looked out onto the coastline or the sea. This was meant to be a direct comparison to landscape art which focus heavily on land based scenes.
The subject of the artwork can include anything from the ocean to coastlines and nautical scenes and can even be set out at sea rather than just looking out to sea from a coastline. The painting can also depict a wild and stormy ocean, or calm and tranquil water.