February 2012
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“Dutch landscapes are also unlike maps in frequently representing places that are...”
– from the Preface to Lawrence Otto Goedde’s Tempest and Shipwreck in Dutch and Flemish Art where the author refutes an earlier claim that Dutch paintings of the period are like maps: designed to communicate information and to not serve as platforms for allegorical statements.
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Disasters at sea, rendered on canvas →
This apparently scratches some kind of aesthetic itch I didn’t notice until I put up that last post about the shark attack. So, I give you: paintingsofnavaldisasters.tumblr.com for more naval disasters, mishaps, cannibalism, and a brief sprinkling of history, head over to the link.