Few graphic images better describe the shift in the mode of comprehending the landscape that took place at the beginning of the twentieth century than Georges Braque's cubist depictions of rural Mediterranean settlements. In these images we see landscapes derived from a new logic, unencumbered by traditional perspective and romantic ideals. Absent is the vocabulary, inspired by history and literature, which was standard in much nineteenth-century art. Instead Braque’s paintings record the act of observing the landscape, free of traditional pictorial devices. Just as scientific theory was peeling back the layers of the visible world to reveal the physical structure of nature, so too was cubist painting revealing nature's interior.