Bakker, Boudewijn. Landscape and religion from Van Eyck to Rembrandt

Folger bibliographic ID: 335594
Folger call number: ND1359 .B3413 2012
Folger holdings ID: 486772

General notes

Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-331) and indexes Translated from the Dutch

Contents

The early landscape: background or subject? -- The art of painting and the cosmos -- The visible world: from semblance to reality -- The beauty of the world as a path to God -- The landscape of the mind: the world as allegory -- The painter as geographer: cartographic and topographical landscapes -- Meanings old and new: Bruegel, Ortelius and Calvin -- A painter writing on landscape painting: Karel van Mander -- The Dutch landscape as an art-historical problem -- Didactic landscapes: Zacharias Heyns and Claes Jansz Visscher -- Two poets and the theory of landscape painting: Huygens and Vondel -- The painter and the landscape: Rembrandt van Rijn

Uniform title: Landschap en wereldbeeld. English
Extended title: Landscape and religion from Van Eyck to Rembrandt / Boudewijn Bakker ; translated by Diane Webb

Landscape painting, Flemish Landscape painting, Dutch Landscapes in art Nature Christianity and art

author: Bakker, Boudewijn
translator: Webb, Diane