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Dutch Painting in the 17th Century and Its Relation to the Perception and Representation of Landscape
Authors: Moraitis, Konstantinos
Reviewer: Tournikiotis, Panagiotis
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Abstract:
The correlation between the terms describing landscape in modern Western societies and the Dutch word landschap, which denotes 17th-century Dutch landscape painting, reveals the significant contribution of painting to the formation of modern conceptions of landscape—especially those that led to the naturalistic English landscape architecture of the following century. The transformations occurring in the Netherlands, both in the field of pictorial representation and in landscape design, emerge within a broader context of cultural and political changes. They are connected with the development of important theoretical currents such as Empiricism, with new proposals in the natural sciences, with technological innovations, and naturally with the political and economic rise of the urban bourgeoisie. In 17th-century Netherlands, the Protestant urban society not only depicted, through painting, the political and cultural landscape it had shaped, but was also the first in modern Europe to demand the construction of public recreational parks.
Technical Editors: Kyrkitsou, Nefeli
Type: Chapter
Creation Date: 2015
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License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/gr
Handle http://hdl.handle.net/11419/2626
Bibliographic Reference: Moraitis, K. (2015). Dutch Painting in the 17th Century and Its Relation to the Perception and Representation of Landscape [Chapter]. In Moraitis, K. 2015. The art of the landscape [Undergraduate textbook]. Kallipos, Open Academic Editions. https://hdl.handle.net/11419/2626
Language: Greek
Is Part of: The art of the landscape
Publication Origin: Kallipos, Open Academic Editions