Word: wijk
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...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 to nature, and even man's creation is lifeless without the natural force of wind...
...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...