Painting by Jan van der Heyden (1637-1712). The master's deep love of his country comes through in works that feature the great buildings of the great age. Always fair skies, always the presence of an industrious and contented citizenry.
Sunday, March 22, 2015
Wednesday, March 4, 2015
Jan van Goyen paintings Geocoded
Painting by Jan van Goyen (1596-1656). The heavy atmosphere in all his works give an immediacy that belies the 400 intervening years between their creation and our sense that we could be standing just in the spot he was, feeling the same breeze and hearing the same activity on the nearby boats.
Sunday, March 1, 2015
van Bommel Paintings Geocoded
Painting by Elias Pieter van Bommel (1819-1890)
van Bommel painted Dutch city life principally. Architecture figured prominently in his work, but not in isolation: it usually served as a frame and reference point for the human activities that went on around it. His work is about evenly split between naming a specific scene and rendering it as he saw it, and idealizing an unnamed setting, or transplanting a certain structure into an alternate setting. One regular feature is slightly overcast skies: not too sunny, not too dramatic.
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