Frans Post’s Brazil: Fractures in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Colonial Landscape Paintings
2013; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 37; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1179/0309656413z.00000000039
ISSN1759-7854
Autores Tópico(s)Financial Crisis of the 21st Century
ResumoThe inter-relationship between the foreground of Frans Post’s landscape paintings, containing representations of Brazil’s fora and fauna, previously considered a decorative afterthought, and the middle/background, showing broader mapped terrains with sugar mills and slave labour, is explored. An argument is presented that shows that Post was attempting to negotiate between several different layers of meaning: namely, how to represent Holland as having succeeded in gaining colonial control over a foreign country while still indicating the dangers and instability of such an endeavour in an exotic and unforgiving terrain.
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