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Jacob Van Ruisdael: Windmills and Water Mills

Door Seymour Slive

Categorie
Schilderkunst
Boeknummer
#430266-LG15
Titel
Jacob Van Ruisdael: Windmills and Water Mills
Auteur
Slive, Seymour
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij
Los Angeles : Getty Publications
Jaar van uitgave
2011
ISBN10
1606060554
ISBN13
9781606060551
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Original brown boards, dust jacket, numerous (full page) illustrations mostly in colour, square (circa 23x23cm).
Samenvatting
Windmills were ubiquitous in seventeenth-century Holland and they remain the best-known symbol of the Dutch landscape. Jacob van Ruisdael first depicted them as a precocious teenager and continued to represent all types in various settings until his very last years. Water mills, in contrast, were scarce in the new Dutch Republic, found mainly in the eastern provinces, particularly near the border with Germany. Ruisdael discovered them in the early 1650s and was the first artist to make water mills the principal subject of a landscape. His most celebrated painting, Windmill at Wijk bij Duurstede at the Rijksmuseum, and the J. Paul Getty Museum's Two Undershot Water Mills with an Open Sluice are the centerpieces of this overview of the artist's depictions of windmills and water mills. Both d... (Lees verder)epended upon forces of nature for their operation, but their use in the Netherlands and their place in seventeenth-century Dutch art differed considerably. This book examines their role in Holland and introduces readers to the pleasure of studying Ruisdael's images of them, a joy conveyed by the English landscapist John Constable in a letter written to his dearest friend after seeing a Ruisdael painting of a water mill in a London shop: “It haunts my mind and clings to my heart.”
Pagina's
112
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 12,50

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