Les scènes hivernales dans la peinture du Siècle d'or hollandais

The winter scenesare at their optimum during the Dutch Golden Age. When one focuses on the winter and coldness representations, one might wonder if the paintings and the real weather are correlated. If they are, do the paintings genuinely show how the weather was when they were painted? As the winte...

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Main Authors: Alexis Metzger, Martine Tabeaud
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Physio-Géo 2010-10-01
Series:Physio-Géo
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/physio-geo/1312
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Summary:The winter scenesare at their optimum during the Dutch Golden Age. When one focuses on the winter and coldness representations, one might wonder if the paintings and the real weather are correlated. If they are, do the paintings genuinely show how the weather was when they were painted? As the winter scenes became appreciated, the painters started to paint without taking into account the real weather. Eventually they painted genre scenes of the winter time and almost developed a series of winter scenes' image. Therefore the unusual rough coldness of the Little Ice Age winters has generally disappeared of the paintings, joyful winter scenes being preferred.
ISSN:1958-573X