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Adriaen Van De Velde: Dutch Master of Landscape (Paperback)
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Adriaen Van De Velde: Dutch Master of Landscape (Paperback)
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A Dutch Italianate, Adriaen Van de Velde represents a point of
artistic crosscommunication across borders, fusing agricultural
landscapes in Holland with mythological Arcadian scenes in Italian
settings. He died at the early age of 35, and yet he produced a
great number of masterpieces that earned him tremendous posthumous
fame in the 18th and 19th centuries, when he was one of the most
sought-after names among collectors in Germany, France and England.
Compared to Mozart's chamber music by the renowned art historian
Wolfgang Stechow (1896-1974), Van de Velde's works are delicate and
carefully composed and demonstrate his mastery of lighting effects
as well as the human figure. His father Willem van de Velde the
Elder and brother of the Younger were both marine painters, who in
the winter of 1672-73 moved from Leiden to England to work in the
service of King Charles II. Adriaen, by contrast, almost certainly
never travelled outside his native country and chose to paint
landscapes rather than seascapes. His meadows, Italianate views,
beaches, dunes, forests, winter scenes and portraits in landscape
settings and are among the very best that the Dutch Golden Age has
produced. Moreover, the artist's drawings are widely considered to
be a high point in 17th-century Dutch draughtsmanship. Yet despite
his fame in previous centuries and the exquisite quality of his
work, there has never been an exhibition devoted to the artist. As
well as bringing together 60 of his finest works, the publication
will reunite the paintings with their preparatory studies in
seductive red chalk or pen and ink for the first time, making it
possible to follow very precisely the various phases in the
artist's creative process - perhaps more so than is possible for
any other Dutch artist of the period. The publication will
therefore offer not only a survey of the artist's oeuvre but also a
rare glimpse of a seventeenth-century Dutch landscape painter at
work, from conception to completion.
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