From an analysis of the main aesthetic categories fashionable on
the Eighteenth Century we can discover a complex plan of
philosophical toughts on nature and on landscape. These
considerations had a particular reformulation in the romantic
theories. The research concern particolarly the
interlacement of these topics and problems as they come out from
the Renaissance to the Twentieth Century, in the field of
aesthetics and art.
This research focused on a map of philosophical toughts on
the topic of the nature and the landscape. From the analysis of the
main aesthetic and artistic categories in the Goethe Age emerge
diverse visions of the world. Philosophers, scientists, artists and
writers thought, imaginated, elaborated them. This map lives in the
articulation of the forms of nature as an absolute or in the
representation of the landscape, result of imagination and human
work. The romantic theories, as well as some recent poetics,
offered impressions, observations, definitions useful to give an
aesthetics and a philosophy of nature and landscape presented
to us as great issues of the artistic and cultural civilizations.
