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Landscape and religion from Van Eyck to Rembrandt / Boudewijn Bakker ; translated by Diane Webb.
Fine Arts Library ND1359 .B3413 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bakker, Boudewijn.
- Standardized Title:
- Landschap en wereldbeeld. English
- Language:
- Dutch
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Landscape painting, Flemish.
- Landscape painting, Dutch.
- Landscapes in art.
- Nature--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- Nature.
- Christianity and art--Netherlands.
- Christianity and art.
- Netherlands.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 347 pages, 28 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colored) ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2012.
- Summary:
- Former curator (Amsterdam City Archives) and researcher (history, U. of Amsterdam) Bakker seeks to explain the importance of landscape in 17th-century Netherlandish painting by starting with what the real landscape, the visible world, meant for people. He takes landscape painters not as heralds of intellectual or artistic innovation, but as exponents of generally accepted views. Among his topics are the art of painting and the cosmos, the beauty of the world as a path to God, painter Karel van Mandere writing on landscape, the didactic landscapes of Zacharian Heyns and Claes Jansz Visscher, and poets Huygens and Vondel on the theory of landscape painting. The Dutch original, Landschap en wereldbeeld was published in 2004. Webb specializes in translating art books. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-331) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9781409404866
- 1409404862
- OCLC:
- 779607250
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