| |
|
|
Welcome to www.landscapepainting.com, the internet home of ETRUSCAN PLACES!
Since
1995 we have offered specialized Landscape Painting Workshops in
Italy, the birthplace of outdoor painting.
Course locations put you among the most
beautiful landscapes in Tuscany near Buonconvento and at the sites of early Open Air
painting in the Roman Campagna.
|
 |
 |
|
|
|
The
Season is Here!
|
|
See
our 2009 Calendar!
|
|
For a rewarding and memorable experience we
invite you to join our team of dedicated landscape artists in Italy,
where "Plein Air" painting first began.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Workshop
and Lecture offered by Palm Springs Art Museum, Spring 2009
|
|
|
|
Maddine Insalaco and Joe Vinson of Etruscan
Places will be teaching a workshop in the California desert offered by the Palm Springs Art
Museum and Artists Council from March 30 through April 3,
2009. Joe and Maddine will also be giving a lecture "Open
Air Painting: Italian Origins and Modern Implications" which
will be open to the public. Click
Here to view an Adobe Acrobat document
for more information.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Spring
2008 American Artist
|
|
Click
Here to read Article
|
|
|
|
|
|
Open
Air Painting from Italy, a Continuing Tradition
|
| |
| Our show at the Museum of Arts and
Sciences Macon, Georgia is now closed. Many thanks to the
Museum and its staff and to all of our friends that came by. |
| |
| The
museum created a Gallery Guide which provides information and
context for the show. If you have Adobe Acrobat Viewer
installed on your computer you can see see the guide by clicking
here.
|
|
|
|
COURSE
Descriptions
|
|
See our Courses
section. This section gives descriptions of the workshops and images for the various locations
we use. We hope these will provide everything needed to choose your
painting workshop.
Take a few moments to explore our site or contact
us directly for all information describing our landscape painting
program. Fees are based in Dollars.
|
|
Food...Yummmm!
|
|
Food touring as an
extension of a painting program? Actually, it makes perfect
sense. As artists we are focused on our most basic senses,
sight and touch. Now just add taste and smell, and of
course you want the food to look good too! Combine that with
being surrounded here in Buonconvento by some of the best that Italy has
to offer in the culinary area and you can see the
connection.
|
|
Etruscan Places is now offering a
Tuscan Cooking Course for the non-painter companions attending
certain of our painting workshops. See Calendar
page for specific dates.
|
|
Our one week Tuscan Food Tour and Cooking Workshop
has been very successful. We only do one food tour a season,
but it's the BEST season. We will
be displaying this years wine list on the site below, have a
look. Buon Appetito!
|
|
For a visit click on www.tuscanepicure.com.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Dreaming
of Tuscany
|
|
|
|
Dreaming of
Tuscany: Where to Find the Best There Is: Perfect Hilltowns;
Splendid Palazzos; Rustic Farmhouses; Glorious Gardens; Authentic
Cuisine; Great Wines; Intriguing Shops; (Hardcover, published
October 10, 2006 by Rizzoli) by
Barbara Milo Ohrbach
This delightful book is a beautiful photo
essay on Tuscany, but it is also filled with useful information to
enrich your visit to this region of Italy. You may read the
part about Etruscan Places by going to our Press
section. You
can also buy this book at Amazon.com by clicking here!
|
|
|
|
College
Credit!
For more
information click on our College
Credit page.
|
|
|
| "What induces
you, oh man, to depart from your home in town, to leave parents and
friends, and go to the country-side over mountains and valleys, if
it is not the beauty of the world of nature which, on considering,
you can only enjoy through the sense of sight; and as the poet in
this also wants to compete with the painter, why do you not take the
poet's descriptions of such landscapes and stay at home without
exposing yourself to the excessive heat of the sun? Would that
not be more expedient and less fatiguing, since you could stay in a
cool place without moving about and exposing yourself to
illness? But your soul could not enjoy the pleasures that come
to it through the eyes, the windows of its habitation, it could not
receive the reflections of bright places, it could not see the many
flowers which with their various colours compose harmonies for the
eye, nor all the other things which may present themselves to the
eye."
Leonardo da Vinci, The 'Paragone'
|
|
|
|
Vita
brevis, Ars Longa CARPE
DIEM! Ora fugit.!*
|
|
*Life
is short, Art endures. Seize
the moment as time flies.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Etruscan Places
Click
here for full Contact Information
Website by Joe Vinson
|
|
Italy is where the practice of painting
outside as a regular part of artistic training began. The landscape of Tuscany has inspired generations of travelers and artists.
Etruscan Places is focused on the art of open air or plein air or outdoor landscape
painting. We work outside during the art workshops, on location, under the Tuscan
sun or clouds, and have all the equipment necessary for the task.
Our instructors at the art workshop are
artists and landscape painters, who
possess a depth of experience, education, and
knowledge of art history and art making. This distinguishes them and makes for
outstanding painting workshops. The level of professionalism of the art
programs has routinely drawn praise from participants who have taken these art
workshops. The painting workshops are located
on beautiful farms which offer guests the
chance to experience genuine Italian country
living in Tuscany. Spend your painting vacation with us in Tuscany, near
Siena, Buonconvento and Florence. Or you can join us in Lazio north of
Rome at Civita Castellana
|
|
|
