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Pastoral

Related: art - landscape

Pastoral Landscape with a Flight into Egypt (1663) - Claude Lorrain
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Definition

In art, be it literature, painting, or another form, it refers to rural subjects such as villages, herdsmen, and milkmaids, that are romanticized and depicted in a highly unrealistic manner. --http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pastoral [Sept 2005]

See also: idyllic - painting - France - kitsch

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