Italian Landscape with a Cavalry Battle (1665-1670)
Nicolaes Pietersz. Berchem1665-1670 · Landscape · Public domain
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Provenance and rights
- Rights
- Public domain (artist died 1683)
Specifications
- Year
- 1665-1670
- Nationality / school
- Dutch
- Lifespan
- 1620–1683
About the artwork
"Italian Landscape with a Cavalry Battle" (1665-1670) is a work by Nicolaes Pietersz. Berchem. Historical background, 1665-1670: The seventeenth century is the age of the Baroque, which favoured dramatic light, movement, and strong emotion in the work of painters in Italy, Spain, and Flanders. In the Dutch Republic, a prosperous middle-class market supported landscapes, still lifes, portraits, and scenes of daily life painted at a modest scale for the home. The catalogue places it in Landscape. The format is landscape. Landscape in brief: Landscape became an independent genre in European painting in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, while in East Asia it had long been central to ink painting. Painters have used landscape to study light, weather, season, and the relation between people and place.
"Italian Landscape with a Cavalry Battle" is shown in the onlly.art catalogue for reference and browsing. A landscape format suits wide, low wall spaces such as the stretch above a bed, mantel, or sideboard. Landscape scenes add depth and a sense of air to the room, helping the space feel more open and working especially well above a sofa, console, or desk. Browsing works by the same artist, or from the same period, is a good way to compare styles before choosing what suits your space.
About the artist
Dutch, 1620–1683
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