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Article: Sweet Dutch dreams are made of this.(Review)
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- The Mail on Sunday (London, England)
- Article date:
- June 16, 2002
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Byline: PHILIP HENSHER
Inspired By Italy: Dutch Landscape Painting, 1600-1700 Dulwich Picture Gallery, London until August 26 **** (Recommended)
Fashions in painting come and go, and often you can see some reason why people liked one sort of art rather than another. But I'm damned if I can see why the painters in the Dulwich Picture Gallery show Inspired By Italy have been the subject of ridicule and contempt for 200 years now.
The show explores the work of Dutch 17th Century painters whose subject was Italy - sometimes the real Italy, sometimes a dream of Italian landscapes. It really contains some of the most beautiful and airy paintings of ...