Leopoldine van Hogendorp Prosperetti Woodland imagery in Northern art, c.1500 - 1800

poetry and ecology

Woodland Imagery in Northern Art reconnects us with the woodland scenery that abounds in Western painting, from Albrecht Durer's intense studies of verdant trees, to the works of many other Northern European artists who captured 'the truth of vegetation' in their work. These incidents of remarkable scenery in the visual arts have received little attention in the history of art, until now. Prosperetti brings together a set of essays which are devoted to the poetics of the woodlands in the work of...

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Engels | 160 pagina's | Lund Humphries Publishers, London | 2022

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