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Journey through landscape in seventeenth-century Holland : the Haarlem print series and Dutch identity
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Journey through landscape in seventeenth-century Holland : the Haarlem print series and Dutch identity

Author: Catherine Levesque
Publisher: University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©1994.
Edition/Format: Book : State or province government publication : English
Summary:
The sets of landscape etchings produced in the second decade of the seventeenth century by Claes Jansz. Visscher, Esaias van den Velde, Willem Buytewech, and Jan van de Velde drew on and contributed to a print culture that played a key role in defining "Dutch" landscape. Examination of these printed landscape series as part of a wide-ranging print culture underscores the consistent interrelationship of landscape,
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Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Catherine Levesque
ISBN: 0271010495 9780271010496
OCLC Number: 29952133
Description: xxii, 169 p., [101] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 29 cm.
Contents: 1. The Visual Culture: Prints and Communication -- 2. Pieter Bruegel's Large Landscapes and the Sixteenth-Century Background -- 3. Claes Jansz. Visscher's Pleasant Places -- 4. Esaias van den Velde's Ten Landscapes -- 5. Willem Buytewech's Various Small Landscapes -- 6. Jan van de Velde's Series of Landscapes and Ruins -- Epilogue: Print Culture and the Interpretation of Landscape.
Other Titles: Journey through landscape in 17th-century Holland.
Responsibility: Catherine Levesque.

Abstract:

The sets of landscape etchings produced in the second decade of the seventeenth century by Claes Jansz. Visscher, Esaias van den Velde, Willem Buytewech, and Jan van de Velde drew on and contributed to a print culture that played a key role in defining "Dutch" landscape. Examination of these printed landscape series as part of a wide-ranging print culture underscores the consistent interrelationship of landscape, history, and politics. To varying degrees, the contemporaneous descriptive geographies, histories, allegorical tableaux, didactic prints, and poetic anthologies considered in this study provide parallels for the prints' serial structure, journey theme, and commemorative motifs. Moreover, as part of a wider enterprise of Dutch self-definition, they provide cultural guidelines for the interpretation of landscape in prints and paintings.

Levesque's study of the Dutch seventeenth-century experience of place is two-tiered. She addresses the journey through landscape as an interpretive framework, the spatial structure of knowledge, the benefits of travel from the point of view of humanists, and the growth of a Dutch national self-consciousness expressed through landscape. She also provides a close reading of the structure and motifs in the print series of Claes Jansz. Visscher, Esaias van den Velde, Willem Buytewech, and Jan van de Velde.

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