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Pictura topiaria[1] (Francogallice: peinture de paysage) est - sicut historiarum, faciarum, morum pictura - genus quoddam rerum ipsarum penicillo exprimendarum.
In pictura topiaria et naturae et humanae fabricationis res in partibus depingi solent. Agitur de concretis sive optime fictis plagis valde diversis (e.g. collium, montium, lacuum, orae maritimae). Saepe prehenduntur regiones cum cultura, e.g. visiones in oppida sive in aedes, in hortos et viridaria, in officinas et fabricas.
Iam in Aegypto antiqua, in Mesopotamia et in Graecia res tales colebantur. Quoad Hellenes proh dolor testimonia tantummodo in scriptis conservabantur. Neque obliviscamur picturarum topiariarum in Sinis et in Iaponia florentium. Cum Americani meridionales id genus pingendi ignoravisse videantur, in arte Islamica multi libri in Persia sive in India eiusmodi argumentis saepe exornabantur.
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