The tradition of 'ideal landscape' was inaugurated in the early years of the seventeenth-century by the Bolognese painter Annibale Carracci (1560-1609) and developed by Claude and Nicolas Poussin. This style of landscape painting favours orderly, formalized and imposing settings of the natural landscape as a framework for figures often from mythological or biblical narratives (see also the defence of ideal landscape in Reynolds's Fourteenth Discourse).