Jacob Van Ruisdael - Seymour Slive
windmills and water mills
KORTE INHOUD
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 depended 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 t...
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2011 Uitgever: J. Paul Getty Museum 112 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 1606060554 ISBN-13: 9781606060551Koop dit boek tweedehands
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2011, cloth with dustjacket, xvi, 112 pp., as new [Auteur: SLIVE, Seymour] [Pagina's: 112] [Taal: en] [Uitgever: Los Angeles, The J. Paul Getty Museum] [Jaar: 2011] [Titel: Jacob van Ruisdael - Windmills and Water Mills]
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2011, cloth with dustjacket, xvi, 112 pp., as new [Auteur: SLIVE, Seymour] [Pagina's: 112] [Taal: en] [Uitgever: Los Angeles, The J. Paul Getty Museum] [Jaar: 2011] [Titel: Jacob van Ruisdael - Windmills and Water Mills]
