'O fortunate land!' : Karel van Mander, 'A West Indies Landscape', and the Dutch discovery of America
Looks at the presence of America in early Dutch visual paintings and prints, and the significant role in interpreting Americana played by Karel van Mander. Van Mander was a 16th-c. art historian, painter, poet, and translator. Van Mander's notes reveal a number of developments in Dutch percepti...
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BRILL
1995-01-01
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| Online Access: | http://www.kitlv-journals.nl/index.php/nwig/article/view/3279 |