The Dutch of the seventeenth century were the first Europeans to specialise in marine art. The achievements of the celebrated Dutch masters attest to the vitality and enduring appeal of this art form. Mirror of Empire is the catalogue accompanying a travelling exhibition sponsored by The Minneapolis Institute of Arts. This survey in English of Dutch marine art includes many of the works of both Willem Van de Velde the Elder and Willem Van de Velde the Younger. The catalogue focuses on paintings, drawings, prints, sea charts and related cartographical material, while stressing the relationship among marine art and Dutch history, commerce and the tremendous significance of Dutch ship design. The book provides biographies of Dutch marine artists and contributors' essays on related topics that help explain the larger historical context of their period. These topics include the Dutch trade routes that assured the Dutch Republic its pre-eminent position in seventeenth century Europe, the design and function of Dutch ships, the iconography of Dutch marine paintings as found in genre pictures of the period, and the importance of Dutch cartography to Western civilisation.
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Mirror of Empire is a survey of seventeenth-century Dutch marine art. It focuses on the paintings, drawings, prints, sea charts and related cartographical material, while stressing the relationship among marine art and Dutch history, commerce and the tremendous significance of Dutch ship design.
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Few Oil Paintings
15 Nov 2011
By Roger Eikild Kristoffersen
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This book has a few oil paintings in full color. It is very difficult to buy books on the internet when you do not see the contents. Sometimes you can see a few pages, but it does not show the full content. Thus, only 20 percent that I'm interested in. The rest are drawings or etchings. Did not buy it if I could be browsed in it and set the content. Heller bought another book. But so it is. I bought over 130 art books from Amazon. Sure some will be wrong purchase. It's too expensive to return, but he of course is sold again over the network.
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