Here is another of the Cezanne's depictions of Mont Sainte-Victoire which may be taken to illustrate the concept of Classical Landscape:    

           Mont Sainte-Victoire  by  P. Cezanne (1887)

     at Courtaulds Institute Gallery, London  

 Nicholas Pioch (Webmuseum) writes: "The peak of Mont Sainte-Victoire near Aix attracted Cézanne all his life. He identified with it as the ancients with a holy mountain on which they set the dwelling or birthplace of a god. Only for Cézanne it was an inner god that he externalized in this mountain peak--his striving and exaltation and desire for repose."

   I brought in this quote because it alludes to the religious connections of  this, his obsessive motif . Also as a prelude to the question:  how does the dweller in a classical landscape relates to the spiritual and religious?

   Norberg-Schulz associated dwelling in cosmic landscapes with monotheistic faith, and, in romantic landscapes, with beliefs on trolls, gnomes, fairies and the like (see my previous posts). For the classical landscape, in turn,  the association is with Paganism (in the antique Greek sense)

 Quotes from His Genius Loci pp.45:  

"…the Greeks personified the various characters experienced in the landscape as anthropomorphic gods, interrelating thus natural and human properties."    "…by knowing himself he (the Greek man) knew the world and became freed from the total abstraction as well as the empathy discussed in connection with the cosmic and the romantic landscape. The classical landscape therefore makes a human fellowship possible, where every part conserves its identity within the totality"

 

 ( Note: see also Russell's Psychological Perspective on Place  for this aspect of genius loci.)

 Although Norberg-Schulz ideas about the connections between landscape types and religion are certainly appealing, I' d say that caution is called for in attempts to extrapolate them "out of context". IMHO his propositions were intended within an historical context, as a novel perspective on the history of religions. An extrapolation to short term influences on individual dwellers, as some ecologists seem tempted to do, may not be warranted. One thing is to propose that human groups living cohesively through many generations immersed in particular landscapes may have been influenced in the ways they related to the supernatural.  Quite another is to propose that individuals exposed for a few years to, say, classical landscapes, tend to adopt pagan views.  

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