Word: ruisdael
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...third score is the current exhibition of the Dutch landscapist Jacob van Ruisdael one of the most important art historical events ever staged at the Fogg...
...local bakery. The Dutch favored landscapes because they were familiar, and most 17th century masters away from allegorical subjects. The universal demand for art prompted a great outgoing of works, and it is little wonder that historians have been slow at sorting out the artists While Ruisdael has been one of the neglected landscapists, he has only recently emerged as a genius among them...
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...
...windmill at Wijk bij Duurstede, the most famous picture by Jacob van Rhuisdael, appears in his first retrospective exhibition which opened at the Fogg Art Museuem yesterday. Ruisdael is widely recognized as the greatest Dutch landscape painter, and over one hundred masterworks by the seventeenth-century painter are on loan from museums and private collections throughout the world. Seymore Slive, director of the Fogg, spent four years preparing the exhibition and has published a book on Ruisdael to accompany...
...retrospective marks the 300th anniversary of Ruisdael's death and it will be officially opened at a black tie party on Thursday night...