Landscape with a Mill Run and Ruins
Artist: Jacob van Ruisdael
Year Composed: 1653
Artistic Movement: Golden Age
Nationality: Netherlands
Floor Found in Château: Unknown Location
Year Composed: 1653
Artistic Movement: Golden Age
Nationality: Netherlands
Floor Found in Château: Unknown Location
About the Artwork
Characteristic of Jacob van Ruisdael's almost-hyper realistic technique, his Landscape with a Mill Run and Ruins combines the contrasting motifs of life and death into one complete painting. Here, the aspects of death can be seen within the ruins and overrun walls that are dispersed throughout the scene. However, the lushness of the trees and brush combined with the constant flow of the stream (and the hints of a couple in the far upper-left corner) elude to the motif of life, still vibrant and growing within the landscape.
About the Artist
As one of the prominent landscape painters of the Dutch Golden Age, Jacob van Ruisdael gave the art world an almost-hyper realistic aesthetic of painting. Van Ruisdael's paintings typically depicted atmosphere as the upper two-thirds of the canvas, which expressed motion, movement, and vivacity within his pieces. The extreme precision and detail within the clouds, land, and objects give the sense of a photographic appeal to viewers, making them feel as if a part of the scene. These include The Jewish Cemetery (1650), Windmill at Wijk bij Duurstede (1670), and A Wooded Marsh (1660).
About the Movement
Jewish Cemetery was composed in the Dutch Golden Age of art. The Dutch Golden Age that spanned the 17th Century (or during the 1600s) in the Netherlands. During this time, the Dutch economy and culture was flourishing due to their rise in maritime trading, banking system, and rise of the middle class. The aesthetics of the Golden Age followed the Baroque Age of art, however the content of most works revolved around genre, everyday scenes of Dutch society. Some of the most famous Dutch Golden Age artists included Rembrandt van Rijn, Johannes Vermeer, and Jan van Eyck.
Location of Original Work of Art: Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
Characteristic of Jacob van Ruisdael's almost-hyper realistic technique, his Landscape with a Mill Run and Ruins combines the contrasting motifs of life and death into one complete painting. Here, the aspects of death can be seen within the ruins and overrun walls that are dispersed throughout the scene. However, the lushness of the trees and brush combined with the constant flow of the stream (and the hints of a couple in the far upper-left corner) elude to the motif of life, still vibrant and growing within the landscape.
About the Artist
As one of the prominent landscape painters of the Dutch Golden Age, Jacob van Ruisdael gave the art world an almost-hyper realistic aesthetic of painting. Van Ruisdael's paintings typically depicted atmosphere as the upper two-thirds of the canvas, which expressed motion, movement, and vivacity within his pieces. The extreme precision and detail within the clouds, land, and objects give the sense of a photographic appeal to viewers, making them feel as if a part of the scene. These include The Jewish Cemetery (1650), Windmill at Wijk bij Duurstede (1670), and A Wooded Marsh (1660).
About the Movement
Jewish Cemetery was composed in the Dutch Golden Age of art. The Dutch Golden Age that spanned the 17th Century (or during the 1600s) in the Netherlands. During this time, the Dutch economy and culture was flourishing due to their rise in maritime trading, banking system, and rise of the middle class. The aesthetics of the Golden Age followed the Baroque Age of art, however the content of most works revolved around genre, everyday scenes of Dutch society. Some of the most famous Dutch Golden Age artists included Rembrandt van Rijn, Johannes Vermeer, and Jan van Eyck.
Location of Original Work of Art: Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia