Book of the Month

June 1999

 

The Light of Nature
Landscape Drawings and Watercolours by van Dyck and his contemporaries

The Author
Martin Royalton-Kisch

192 pages
ISBN  0-7141-2618-7

Cased £35.00

Paperback £20.00
ISBN  0-7141-2621-7
May 1999

 

  • Published to coincide with the 400th anniversary of the birth of van Dyck and to accompany a major exhibition of his work in Antwerp and London; this is the first book to focus on van Dyck's remarkable landscape drawings.

  • The thirty known landscape drawings by Anthony van Dyck are among the most beautiful of their kind to survive from the seventeenth century. Ranging from views of towns or woodland to studies of flowers and plants, they are imbued with a distinct atmosphere and drawn with astonishing delicacy and economy. This exhibition brings together as many of these works as possible from collections around the world and examines them alongside works by van Dyck's master, Rubens, and contemporary artists such as Claude, Poussin and Rembrandt.

  • Illustrated with over 60 colour reproductions of original works,  this book traces the rapid growth of sketching from nature in the 1620's and 1630's and explores van Dyck's place in the European-wide context of landscape art and as the originator of the British watercolour tradition.

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