The temporary exhibition now being held at Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga does include fifty seven unquestionable masterpieces by several painters who have been justly awarded full recognition as being responsible for the consolidation of landscape as an independent pictorial genre.
The paintings being exhibited have been assembled in nine different groups (1 - The mountains: crossroads and travellers gatherings; 2 - Country life; 3 and 4 - Landscapes with ice and snow; 5 - The forest as a scenario setting; 6 - Rubens and landscape; 7 - In the Palace garden, exotic landscapes and distant lands; 8 - Landscapes with water, sea, harbours and rivers and 9 -Painting the light in Italy) and belong to the Museo do Prado collection of Flemish and Dutch landscapes of the seventeenth century.
As I walked into the Museum Sunday morning it was beginning to get overcrowded but I was nevertheless able to admire every painting in every possible detail given the three hours I spent there, though to be honest there are thousands of little details worth being looked at ... once, twice ... any number of times, as there will certainly be always something one did overlook before, particularly in those huge paintings with hundreds of little detailed characters.
Country life - ca. 1620/1622 by Jan Brueghel, the elder (1568-1625)
Country Wedding - ca. 1621/1623 by Jan Brueghel, the elder
Market scene and washing field in Flandres - ca. 1621/1622 by Jan Brueghel, the elder and Jos de Momper, the younger (1564-1635)
Festival of our Lady of the woods - 1616 by Denis van Alsloot (1560-1628)
The archery contest (detail) - ca. 1645 by David Terniers, the younger (1610-1690)
The Alpine landscape - ca. 1600/1615 by Tobias Verhaecht (1561-1631)
The port of Amsterdam in winter - ca. 1656/1660 by Hendrick Jacobsz Dubbels (1621-1707)
Winter landscape with bird trap - ca.1601 by Pieter Brueghel, the younger (1564-1638)
Landscape with skaters - ca. 1615 by Jos de Momper, the younger
(To be continued)
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