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Published to accompany an exhibition opening at the Queen's Gallery, the Palace of Holyroodhouse, in April 2010 and the Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace, in April 2011.
Offering a corrective to the common scholarly characterization of seventeenth-century Dutch landscape painting as modern, realistic and secularized, Boudewijn Bakker here explores the long history and purpose of landscape in Netherlandish painting. In Bakker's view, early Netherlandish as well as seventeenth-century Dutch painting can be understood only in the context of the intellectual climate of the day. Concentrating on landscape painting as the careful depiction of the visible world, Bakker's analysis takes in the thought of figures seldom consulted by traditional art historians, such as the fifteenth-century philosopher Dionysius the Carthusian, the sixteenth-century religious reformer...
Dutch Italianate painting is an important as well as appealing strand of landscape painting in the 17th century. This work takes a detailed look at this particular type of landscape painting and the artists who practised it.
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