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Jan van Goyen

How Jan van Goyen’s Landscape Paintings Captured the Dutch Golden Age

Abhishek Kumar JANUARY 13, ON THIS DAY Jan van Goyen was a leading figure in Dutch landscape painting during the Dutch Golden Age. His works captured the beauty of the Dutch countryside and its towns, villages, and waterways, as well as its historical monuments. In his paintings, he often included subtle symbolic references to religious …

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Aelbert Jacobsz Cuyp: Landscape painter of unique poetic sensibility

OCTOBER 20, ON THIS DAY Aelbert Jacobsz Cuyp was a Dutch landscape painter of the Baroque period. He is known for his large views of the Dutch countryside in the early morning or late afternoon light, distinguished for their poetic use of light and atmosphere. His river scenes and seascapes in which the moist atmosphere …

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