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A Panoramic Landscape

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Dutch Artist · 1619–1688

Philips Koninck's peers admired his portraits, literary subjects, and genre scenes, but today he is best known for his landscapes. Born to a wealthy Amsterdam goldsmith, he apprenticed in Rotterdam with his elder brother around 1637 and by 1641 returned to Amsterdam. There he may have been a pupil of Rembrandt van Rijn, and Koninck's early work shows Rembrandt's influence. Koninck was well-to-do;

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Date: 1665
Medium: Oil on canvas
Culture: Dutch
Department: Paintings
Institution: Getty Museum
Object ID: a5b1dfd0-e66d-4c93-8a48-3efb068eac65

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Seen from a high vantage point, this panoramic view of a Dutch landscape seems to extend into a limitless distance. Sweeping clouds dominate the dramatic sky, emphasizing the low flat expanse of the land below. Patches of sunlight illuminate the water, trees, and buildings of a broad plain traversed by a winding river. Philips Koninck specialized in painting panoramic views of his native countryside. Although the view seems convincing, he composed this imaginary landscape from various raw elements of nature, playing with expressive lighting and perspective upon a natural stage. The view assumes a point of view high above the earth, which did not exist in the flat land of Holland.

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