Article: Dutch Italianisers at Dulwich.(Inspired by Italy: Dutch Landscape Painting, 1600-1700, Dulwich Gallery, London, England)

THE latest and most ambitious exhibition at the Dulwich Gallery is Inspired by Italy: Dutch Landscape Painting, 1600-1700. Its subject is the many Dutch painters who followed their apprenticeship in Holland with a period of vocational travel in Italy. They widened their experience of terrain and light, and therefore the visionary range with which, upon their return, they viewed their own country. At its best, landscape painting is not, in Henry Fuseli's words, 'the tame delineation of a given spot'; not what Baudelaire decried as 'Nature unpurified and unexplained by the imagination'. Even in Italy, Jan Both already claimed his right to exercise his imagination by ...

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