The background of Ruysch's paintings are usually dark, which was the fashion for flower painting in the second half of the 17th century. A still-life painter from the Northern Netherlands, Ruysch specialized in flowers, and she paid extensive attention to all the details in her work. Rachel Ruysch was the best documented women painter of the Dutch Golden Age, partly due to a long and successful career that spanned six decades.
Here we discover the artists who were a part of this resurgence in Dutch painting and contributed to defining a huge moment in art history. Due to the shift in subject matter, the variety of genres was huge and were divided into specialized categories such as landscapes, townscapes, landscapes with animals, flower paintings, maritime paintings, and still lifes of various types. However Dutch Golden Age works don’t usually depict the same extravagant splendor, rather their paintings are characterized by detailed realism. The characteristics of Dutch Golden Age art is often likened to the general European period of Baroque painting, which is most associated with grandeur, richness, drama, movement, and tension. Gone were the paintings of religious subjects and instead a new market for all kinds of secular subjects emerged. The upheavals and shifts in population during the war and the sharp break with the old monarchist and Catholic cultural traditions meant that Dutch art had to reinvent itself entirely. The northern Netherlandish provinces that made up the new Republic had traditionally been less important artistic centers than cities further south.
In 1648, the Netherlands also gained independence, which allowed the Golden Age to flourish until the end of the century. Roughly spanning the 17th century, the first section was characterized by the Thirty Years’ War, a war fought across central Europe between 16 that resulted in one of the most destructive conflicts in human history. The Dutch Golden Age was a period in the history of the Netherlands in which Dutch trade, science, military, and art were among the most acclaimed in the world.
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