Veduta

thumb|290px|''Rome, a view of the Tiber, Castel Sant'Angelo, Ponte Sant'Angelo, Saint Peter's Basilica by Hendrik Frans van Lint; 1734, oil on canvas, 47 × 72 cm, [[private collection]] A (; ) is a highly detailed, usually large-scale painting or, more often, print of a cityscape or some other vista. The painters of are referred to as .

==Origins== View of Bracciano'' by [[Paul Bril; early 1620s, oil on canvas, 75 × 164 cm, Art Gallery of South Australia.|thumb|290px]] This genre of landscape originated in Flanders, where artists such as Paul Bril painted as early as the 16th century. In the 17th century, Dutch painters made a specialty of detailed and accurate recognizable city and landscapes that appealed to the sense of local pride of the wealthy Dutch middle class. An archetypal example is Johannes Vermeer's View of Delft. The Ghent architect, draughtsman and engraver Lieven Cruyl (1640–1720) contributed to the development of the during his residence in Rome in the late 17th century. Cruyl's drawings reproduce the topographical aspects of the urban landscape.