Research Catalog

Title

Woodland imagery in Northern art, c.1500 - 1800 : poetry and ecology / Leopoldine van Hogendorp Prosperetti.

Author

Prosperetti, Leopoldine van Hogendorp, 1948-

Publication

• London : Lund Humphries Publishers, 2022.
• ©2022

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Details

Description

160 pages : illustrations (color); 25 cm.

Summary

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 the great masters, including Claude Lorrain, Jan van Eyck, Jacob van Ruisdael, Peter Paul Rubens, Rembrandt and Leonardo da Vinci, amongst others.0 Through an examination of aesthetics and eco-poetics, this book draws attention to the idea of lyrical naturalism as a conceptual bridge that unites the power of poetry with the allurement of the natural world. Engagingly written and beautifully illustrated throughout, Woodland Imagery in Northern Art strives to stimulate the return of the woodlands to the places where they belong - in people's minds and close to home.

Series Statement

Northern lights

Uniform Title

Northern lights (London, England)

Subject

• 1500-1799
• Forests in art
• Forests in literature
• Ecology in literature
• Art > Europe, Northern > History > 16th century
• Art, Modern > 17th century > History
• Art, Modern > 18th century > History
• Art
• Art, Modern
• Northern Europe

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-153) and index.

Contents

Machine generated contents note: 1. Kindles Promise -- 2. Albrecht Durer and the Linden Tree -- 3. The New Earth: Jan van Eyck's Adoration of the Mystic Lamb -- 4. The T̀ranscendent Perfections of Trees': The Poet's Catalogue -- 5. The Copse -- 6. Survivor Sole -- 7. The Sights of Tivoli -- 8. Sonian Sylva: Love in a Ducal Forest -- 9. Sea of Leaves: The Heart of the Forest -- 10. Down by the Riverside.

Call Number

JQF 22-1891

ISBN

• 9781848224940
• 184822494X

OCLC

1273670903

Author

Prosperetti, Leopoldine van Hogendorp, 1948- author. Author

Title

Woodland imagery in Northern art, c.1500 - 1800 : poetry and ecology / Leopoldine van Hogendorp Prosperetti.

Publisher

London : Lund Humphries Publishers, 2022.

Copyright Date

©2022

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Northern lights

Northern lights (London, England)

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-153) and index.

Chronological Term

1500-1799

Research Call Number

JQF 22-1891