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| Keywords: Van Ruysdael, Salomon, View of Dordrecht, ca. 1660.jpg Artwork Creator Salomon van Ruysdael Catalogue Entry Although Salomon van Ruysdael was active in the city of Haarlem he painted many views of Dordrecht The low vantage point addressing the subject straight on signals a new attitude toward landscape a change from the conceptual bird ™s-eye to an empirical immersed view In 1572 the first organizational meeting of the Revolt of the Netherlands was held in Dordrecht and the Prince of Orange was chosen to lead the independent nation Paintings of the city probably carried patriotic meaning alluding to allegiance to the Dutch nation and specifically to the House of Orange As if to make this clear several Dutch flags appear prominently in the foreground on ships Gallery Label Ruysdael painted this view of Dordrecht less than a quartercentury after the end of the Eighty Years ™ War of Dutch Independence The buildings rise above the River Thure the major artery that links central Holland to the North Sea Dordrecht served as a symbol for the new Dutch nation for it was there that representatives from all of the Dutch cities except Amsterdam convened in 1572 at the Assembly of the Free States to vote for independence Three years later the Dutch constitution was ratifi ed there From the ships in the foreground fl ying the new Dutch Republic ™s orange white and green tricolor to the massive church toward the center Ruysdael ™s painting demonstrates the close association seventeenth-century Dutch audiences found between the physical landscape and national identity ~ 1660 Oil wood panel Size cm 34 5 61 <br> frame Size cm 58 4 85 4 4 8 Institution Princeton University Art Museum European Art object history exhibition history credit line Bequest of Brooks Emeny Class of 1924 accession number y1980-13 place of creation Princeton University Art Museum PD-old-100 1670 cite book Steward James Christen Princeton University Art Museum Handbook of the Collections Revised and Expanded Edition 2013 Princeton University Art Museum Princeton NJ 978-0943012414 2nd 201 cite web View of Dordrecht y1980-13 http //artmuseum princeton edu/collections/objects/32428 Princeton University Art Museum European paintings in the Princeton University Art Museum 1660 Paintings in the Princeton University Art Museum 1660 European art in the Princeton University Art Museum 1660 Dutch paintings in the Princeton University Art Museum 1660 Paintings of river landscapes by Salomon van Ruysdael Dordrecht in art Uploaded with UploadWizard | ||||
