Buch, Englisch, Band 15, 400 Seiten, Format (B × H): 226 mm x 295 mm
The paintings
Buch, Englisch, Band 15, 400 Seiten, Format (B × H): 226 mm x 295 mm
Reihe: OCULI: Studies in the Arts of the Low Countries
ISBN: 978-90-272-4967-8
Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Poelenburch’s idyllic, mostly small-sized landscapes on copper or panel and done in a highly refined style and technique usually feature a ‘history’: a biblical, mythological or pastoral subject. Nowadays he is known primarily as the leading artist of the first generation of ‘Italianate’ landscape painters, but in his own time he was lauded mainly for his lively figures with their crisp contours and animated gestures.
From the mid-nineteenth century, Poelenburch’s paintings came to be dismissed as ‘un-Dutch’ and were subsequently neglected and forgotten, together with those of many other seventeenth-century painters who did not fit into the mould of ‘Dutch realism’. This first comprehensive monograph on the artist includes a catalogue of his works, along with a discussion of all of his approximately 290 known paintings (all reproduced), and chapters covering his biography, the reception of his art in his own time and in later centuries, and his remarkable position on the seventeenth century art market.