Dutch Landscapes by Desmond Shawe-Taylor

Dutch Landscapes by Desmond Shawe-Taylor

Dutch artists dominated the genre of landscape painting in the seventeenth century, and Dutch Landscapes brings together more than one hundred lavish color images of their beautiful paintings, which remain popular with art lovers and museum-goers today.

The volume is dominated by stunning evocations of the landscape of Holland--its manmade lowlands and richly foreboding skies--populated with peasants at their labors and aristocrats riding off to the hunt. But Dutch artists didn't limit themselves to views of their homeland: they also ventured to Italy, where the wildly different landscape inspired new approaches and themes, from Arcadian wilderness to the lively activity of the Roman streetscape. And then there was the sea--the source of the Netherlands' prosperity--which painters captured in all its drama and power.

Desmond Shawe-Taylor's accessible notes to each picture link the paintings and explore their relationships, their shared approaches, and their many innovations; the result is a book that brings to life the Dutch Golden Age in all its glory.

Jennifer Scott made her adult fiction debut with The Sister Season. She also writes young adult fiction as Jennifer Brown, including Hate List, which was selected as an ALA Best Book for Young Adults, a VOYA Perfect Ten, and a School Library Journal Best Book of the Year. She has written three other YA novels, including Bitter End, Perfect Escape, and Thousand Words. Jennifer writes and lives in the Kansas City, Missouri area, with her husband and three children.

SKU	Unavailable
ISBN 13	9781905686254
ISBN 10	1905686250
Title	Dutch Landscapes
Author	Desmond Shawe-Taylor
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Royal Collection Trust
Year published	2010-04-05
Number of pages	176
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.