Jacob van Ruisdael : windmills and water mills / Seymour Slive.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Slive, Seymour, 1920-2014.

Contributor:

Ruisdael, Jacob van, 1628 or 1629-1682.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ruisdael, Jacob van, 1628 or 1629-1682--Criticism and interpretation.

Ruisdael, Jacob van.

Ruisdael, Jacob van, 1628 or 1629-1682.

Criticism and interpretation.

Ruisdael, Jacob van, 1628 or 1629-1682--Themes, motives.

Themes, motives.

Windmills in art.

Water mills in art.

Physical Description:

xiv, 112 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Los Angeles : J. Paul Getty Museum, 2011.

Summary:

Slive (fine arts, Harvard U.) explores Dutch artist Jacob van Ruisdael's (1628/29-1682) depictions of windmills through his life, as well as his portrayals of water mills, as he was the first to make them the principal subject of a landscape. Incorporating colorplates of his paintings and drawings throughout, he documents them from his early to later years, including what they reveal about the Netherlands, and discusses Windmill at Wijk bij Duurstede and Two Undershot Water Mills with an Open Sluice in depth, as well as his achievements, the impact on his pupil Meindert Hobbema, who also used the motif, and the history of collecting these mill paintings and their reception by later artists and critics. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

Biography of Jacob van Ruisdael

Windmills. Windmills in The Netherlands

Early years in Haarlem

The middle years

Windmill at Wijk bij Duurstede

Windmills in winter landscapes

Windmills in urban views

Water mills. New motifs discovered in the eastern borderlands

The Getty Museum's Two undershot water mills with an open sluice

Other undershot water mills of the 1650s

Views of an overshot water mill

Coda.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781606060551

1606060554

OCLC:

664114913