Jacob van Ruisdael is widely acknowledged as one of the great Dutch landscape artists of the 17th century. This major study aims to provide a comprehensive over

Windmills were ubiquitous in seventeenth-century Holland and they remain the best-known symbol of the Dutch landscape. Jacob van Ruisdael first depicted them as

Summary: "W.G. Sebald, frequently mentioned in the same breath as Franz Kafka and Vladimir Nabokov, is one of the most important European writers of recent deca

This volume examines the image-based methods of interpretation that pictorial and literary landscapists employed between 1500 and 1700.