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Saturday, December 17, 2005
A Natural Attraction: Dutch and Flemish Landscape Prints from Bruegel to Rembrandt
Philadelphia Museum of Art: December 17, 2005 - February 12, 2006
Over the course of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in the Netherlands, landscape began to emerge as an independent subject in painting and printmaking. Before this time, landscape had been employed by European artists primarily as a backdrop in religious, mythological, and allegorical scenes. Although landscapes continued to furnish settings for these and other narrative subjects, leading artists of the day gradually shifted their attention from human-centered activities to the wonders of the natural world around them. This exhibition of some sixty prints from the Museum’s extensive collection of Dutch and Flemish prints traces the growth of landscape as a hallmark of Netherlandish printmaking. ...