Tempest and Shipwreck in Dutch and Flemish Art: Convention, Rhetoric, and Interpretation

by Lawrence O. Goedde

This innovative study is the first to analyze systematically an important category of Netherlandish seascape the storm at sea. It addresses the fundamental issues of meaning and purpose that such pictures pose for students of Dutch landscape and, indeed, of all Dutch realism. Bringing together a vast body of imagery and texts never before assembled, Goedde places this imagery within historical and cultural contexts that permit us to enter into the...

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271004878
• ISBN13: 9780271004877
• Release Date: October 1990
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 280 Pages