Tuesday,
7 February
∞
“Dutch landscapes are also unlike maps in frequently representing places that are at once imaginary and plausible. In some cases painters relocate identifiable buildings to invented sites, which seems especially subversive of the very nature of cartographic images.”
— 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.