Author:
Bakker, Boudewijn.
Imprint:Burlington : Ashgate, [2012]
Descriptionxvii, 347 p. ; 24 cm
Note: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.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-331) and indexes.
