Author: RUSSELL, M.,
Title: Visions of the Sea. Hendrick C. Vroom and the origins of Dutch Marine Painting. [First edition].
Description: Leiden, E.J. Brill/Leiden Univeristy Press, 1983. Large 8°., original cloth, front cover with gilded small Coat-of-Arms, gilded title on spine, dustjacket. (xvii), 218pp. Frontispiece, many captioned monochrome facsim. illustrations, abbreviations, list of illustrations, notes/references, appendices I-V, index, table of contents. [Publications of the Sir Thomas Browne Institute Leiden, New Series No. 2]. Scholarly introduction to the origins of dutch marine paintings: fifteenth-sixteenth centuries, the changing image of the world: the Painter-Cartographers, Mundus Mare: the vanitas Seascape, which is followed by a biographic assessment of Hendrick Cornelisz. Vroom, The career, tapestries, painter to the [dutch] Seaborne Empire, Followers and Competition. Fine copy.

Keywords: marine painting painters vroom seaborne empire maritime masterpaintings history culture heritage legacy dutch fine art