Hendrick Avercamp : master of the ice scene /
Avercamp, Hendrick,1585-1634.
Roelofs, Pieter.
Rijksmuseum (Netherlands)
National Gallery of Art (U.S.)
Amsterdam : Nieuw Amsterdam,
c2009.
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The Rijksmuseum presents the first exhibition devoted to Hendrick Avercamp, the foremost painter of Dutch winter landscapes in the 17th century. Avercamp was the first Dutch artist to specialise in paintings of winter landscapes featuring people enjoying the ice. Some 400 years on, our image of life in the harsh winters of the Golden Age is still dominated by Avercamp's ice scenes with their splendid narrative details of couples skating, children pelting each other with snowballs and unwary individuals falling through the ice. In addition to twenty of his finest paintings, the exhibition features twenty-five of his best drawings from museums and private collections throughout the world.
Catalog of the exhibition held at Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Nov. 21, 2009-Feb. 15, 2010 and in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Mar. 21-Jul. 5, 2010.
The Rijksmuseum presents the first exhibition devoted to Hendrick Avercamp, the foremost painter of Dutch winter landscapes in the 17th century. Avercamp was the first Dutch artist to specialise in paintings of winter landscapes featuring people enjoying the ice. Some 400 years on, our image of life in the harsh winters of the Golden Age is still dominated by Avercamp's ice scenes with their splendid narrative details of couples skating, children pelting each other with snowballs and unwary individuals falling through the ice. In addition to twenty of his finest paintings, the exhibition features twenty-five of his best drawings from museums and private collections throughout the world.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-184) and index.
Avercamp, Hendrick, 1585-1634
Landscape painting, Dutch