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Nordic Landscape With A Castle On A Hill
''Nordic Landscape with a Castle on a Hill'' is a circa 1660 oil painting by the Dutch Golden Age painter Allaert van Everdingen. It is on display in the Musée des Beaux-Arts of Strasbourg, France. Its inventory number is 560. This imposing Dutch landscape painting – the largest of its kind in the Strasbourg collection, although among 17th-century landscape paintings there, the Italian Rosa's '' Landscape with Tobias and the Angel'' is even larger – was bought in Paris in 1905 by , on behalf on the museum, and entered the collection in 1908. Its previous history is not known. Van Everdingen had travelled to Norway and Sweden in 1644, and several of his subsequent landscape paintings, such as the Strasbourg one, are inspired by motives such as hills and mountains, torrents and lakes, forests and skies, as he had seen them there. Only the castle on the hill is not Scandinavian. The Strasbourg painting does not depict a specific place but aggregates different naturalistic ele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allaert Van Everdingen
Allaert van Everdingen (, bapt. 18 June 16218 November 1675 (buried)), was a Dutch Golden Age painter and printmaker in etching and mezzotint. Biography Van Everdingen was born at Alkmaar, the son of a government clerk. He and his older brothers, the painters Jan and Caesar van Everdingen, according to Arnold Houbraken, were taught by Roelandt Savery at Utrecht. Allaert moved in 1645 to Haarlem, where he studied under Pieter de Molijn. In February of that year he married Janneke Cornelisdr. Their first child, Cornelis, was born a year later. Allart finally settled about 1657 in Amsterdam, where he died in 1675. Style It would be difficult to find a greater contrast than that presented by the works of Savery and Everdingen. Savery inherited the brilliant style of the Brueghels, which he carried into the 17th century; whilst Everdingen realized the large and effective system of coloured and powerfully shaded landscape which characterises the precursors of Rembrandt. A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |