Nordic Landscape Painting in the Nineteenth Century

Adler, Nancy, Gunnarsson, Torsten

This study identifies and analyzes the different types of landscape painting that dominated the Scandinavian countries in the 19th century. The author shows how the wilderness became a symbol of Nordic strength, as well as a counter-image to industrialization and European urban culture.

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A monumental, lavishly illustrated Yale study illuminating the sublime wilderness and distinctive light of nineteenth-century Scandinavian landscape art.

EAN

9780300070415

Publisher

Yale University Press

Published

11 October 1998

Pages

302

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