Word: egmond
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...canvas with high piling clouds. Time and again, one sees images in Constable that might have been lifted straight from Ruisdael. Hadleigh Castle, 1829, with its tall split tower and ruins behind, virtually repeats the motif of Ruisdael's melancholy Landscape with the Ruins of the Castle of Egmond, painted 170 years before...
Real and romantic also meet in Landscape with the Ruins of the Castle of Egmond where a devotion to accuracy is matched by an infatuation with the ruined castle. The castle of Egmond was not an imaginary building, but the scene of a fantastic history. Ruisdael painted the castle at least five times, and his intrigue with the ruins--which the Prince of Orange destroyed to prevent it from falling into the hands of Spanish invaders--suggests that for him the castle was an emblem of Holland's successful fight for independence from the Spaniards...
...women of Holland, but the country itself; the rolling and woody terrain, the castles, cities fields rivers and the sea. He is famous for glorifying trees and windmills making these subjects the principle figures of his works. In A Blasted Elm with a View of Egmond aan Zee the city serves as a backdrop to the twisted and torn elm in the foreground. Ruisdael's most famous painting. The Windmill at Wijk bij Duurstede, may be as close to portraiture as Rusidael comes--with a three quarter profile of a windmill. The symbolism reveals his conviction that man is subordinate...
...paintings and drawings of Ruisdael at the Fogg help us place him into perspective among Dutch masters of the 17th century, but the repercussions of his genius go far beyond Haarlem. Amsterdam or Egmond of the 1660s or '70s. The Ruisdeal exhibition proves that the Fogg continues to champion the first-two-definitions of "mu-se-um," and--especially with plans for the addition alive again--the third: "something that resembles a museum...
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