Vista

(noun)

From Italian vista ("view, sight"). A distant view or prospect, especially one seen through some opening, avenue or a passage.  

Related Terms

  • En Plein air
  • flâneurs
  • flâneur

Examples of Vista in the following topics:

  • Painting in the Early Roman Empire

    • In the case of the Villa of Livia, architectural vistas are replaced with a natural landscape that completely surrounds the room.
    • In this style, masonry details of the First Style reappear on bottom registers, and architectural vistas of the Second Style are once more fashionable, although infinitely more complex than their Second-Style predecessors.
    • Detail of an architectural vista from a second style wall painting.
    • Second style garden vista from the Villa of Livia, Primaporta, Italy.
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