Looking At Paintings is a series of books designed to present many different painters' views of a single subject.  Here is a visual feast of paintings, each of which shows us something about what great artists see when they paint.

In Landscapes, Peggy Roalf leads readers on a personal gallery tour of nineteen favorite paintings of landscapes.  From the work of an unknown Roman artist to Albrecht Durer, Paul Cezanne, Henri Matisse, and others, each artist's vision and interpretation of the landscape is singular.  Vincent van Gogh, for example, captures the ghostly light of a night sky by using daubs of white and yellow paint in Road with Cypress and Star.  Georgia O'Keefe translates her respect for nature into powerful and massive hills in her painting Gray Hills.  On the cover:  Detail of Hunters in the Snow, 1565, by Pieter Brueghel with the full painting reproduced in the book on page 17. 

To see through the eyes of many of the world's greatest painters is to see with the imagination as well.  Landscapes in the LOOKING AT PAINTINGS series is a book that inspires young readers to observe their world and to use their imagination to see like a painter.  Recommended for Ages 8-12, however, is enjoyable reading for all ages.