Abstract
Contents: Preface Introduction The early landscape: background or subject? The art of painting and the cosmos The visible world: from semblance to reality The beauty of the world as a path to God The landscape of the mind: the world as allegory Bosch, Patinir and Bles: worlds of allegory The painter as geographer: cartographic and topographical landscapes Meanings old and new: Bruegel, Ortelius and Calvin A painter writing on landscape painting: Karel van Mander The Dutch landscape as an art-historical problem Didactic landscapes: Zacharias Heyns and Claes Jansz Visscher Two poets and the theory of landscape painting: Huygens and Vondel The painter and the landscape: Rembrandt van Rijn Bibliography Indexes.
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