The Great Marine Paintings of the Dutch Golden Age

The Great Marine Paintings of the Dutch Golden Age. Introduction to Marine Art. The Dutch Golden Age, 1588 to 1672. The Figurative Elements of Marine and Maritime Art. Water. Clouds. Wind, Ocean Currents and Tides. Waves. Trade Routes. Basics of Sailing. Sailing Ships of the Dutch Golden Age. The Marine Paintings of Jan van Goyen and Aelbert Cuyp. Simon de Vlieger Marine Paintings of the Dutch Golden Age. Artists: Aert Anthoniszoon. Ludolf Bakhuizen. Jan van de Cappelle. Jan Josephszoon van Goyen. Aelbert Cuyp. Jan Porcellis. Rembrandt. Willem van de Velde the Elder. Willem van de Velde the Younger. Simon de Vlieger. Hendrik Cornelisz Vroom. Salomon van Ruysdael. Marine art or maritime art is a form of figurative art, that is, painting, drawing, printmaking and sculpture that portrays or draws its main inspiration from the sea. Maritime painting is a genre that depicts ships and the sea—a genre particularly strong from the 17th to 19th centuries. In practice the term often covers art showing shipping on rivers and estuaries, beach scenes and all art showing boats, without any rigid distinction - for practical reasons subjects that can be drawn or painted from dry land in fact feature strongly in the genre. Strictly speaking "maritime art" should always include some element of human seafaring, whereas "marine art" would also include pure seascapes with no human element, though this distinction may not be observed in practice. In Holland a nation of sailors, it is no wonder that marine subjects became a favorite of seventeenth-century collectors and artists alike. Some painters, among them Jan van Goyen and Jacob van Ruisdael, delighted in capturing the marine environs in and around the Dutch coast.

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