Art | Exhibitions | Crossing Genres
29 October 2004 - 23 January 2005
Education Gallery
Crossing Genres:
Dutch Landscape and History Prints of the 17th Century
Most artists in seventeenth-century Holland specialized in one form of painting, such as portraiture, landscape or history. But some, like Bartholomeus Breenbergh, preferred subjects which straddled two genres. Using a selection of prints from the Barber’s extensive collection of works on paper, this exhibition explores the ways in which Breenbergh’s predecessors and contemporaries also combined these, often employing important themes from the Bible or mythology as an ‘excuse’ for depicting landscape.