Rembrandt, his life, his work and his time . THE GROTTO. 1645 (B. 231). REMBRANDTS PAINTED LANDSCAPES 313 painted he felt himself transported to the fantastic regions of hisdreams ; the vast plains of Holland gave place to giant mountains, thevivid greens of her trees and pastures to warm yellows and Mountainous Landscape of Lady Wallaces collection, a workcontemporary with the Storm, is hardly less peculiar. The contrastsare less violent, but that conflict between light and shadow, themysterious poetry of which the master so often rendered, is again the. THE THREE TKEES. 1643 (B.
Rembrandt, his life, his work and his time . THE GROTTO. 1645 (B. 231). REMBRANDTS PAINTED LANDSCAPES 313 painted he felt himself transported to the fantastic regions of hisdreams ; the vast plains of Holland gave place to giant mountains, thevivid greens of her trees and pastures to warm yellows and Mountainous Landscape of Lady Wallaces collection, a workcontemporary with the Storm, is hardly less peculiar. The contrastsare less violent, but that conflict between light and shadow, themysterious poetry of which the master so often rendered, is again the. THE THREE TKEES. 1643 (B. 212). principal theme. In certain portions the warm brownish ground,which barely covers the panel, has been left, and gives the prevailingtone of colour, by which means an effect of perfect unity has beenwon. At a first glance the composition seems very simple ; but oncloser examination the transparent depths of shadow reveal a massof details unnoticed before. The perspective stretches away intoinfinity ; the planes develope before the spectators eye. Streams ofwater pursue their various courses, intersecting each other here andthere; and in the landscape the eye gradually discovers a great diversity 314 REMBRANDT of character and cultivation : fields, with the corn in sheaf; a town; afortified castle, with moat and drawbridge; a village; a few scatteredhouses ; clumps of trees ; roads with passing carriages ; and a man ina red cap, leaning on a stick, his servant beside him holding a coupleof hounds in leash. In a large composition, dated 1638, in theCzartor
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