Arts and Science

The Little Ice Age
Climate, Weather, and Geology in Dutch Landscape Painting of the 17th Century
 

• The Origin of Landscape
• The Incomplete Sky

Paintings as climate archive?
Do paintings provide us with climate proxy data?

Haarlem's Crown of Clouds
Meteorology in J.v. Ruisdael's 'Haarlempjes'

Contrived Reality:
Weather and Geology in J.v. Ruisdael's 'View of Ootmarsum'
A contribution to the "Summer of Science" and ESOF, Munich 2006

An Ordinary Sky by an Extraordinary Painter
Jan van Goyen, "On the Dune", 1642

Hendrick Avercamp: Enjoying the Ice
Symposium "IJspret - De winters van Hendrick Avercamp"
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, 14. 01. 2010

Joos de Momper’s Clouds, Sky and Atmospheric Optics

Goethe and the Cloud

Selected Paintings:

• J.v. Ruisdael's 'Thunderstorm Brewing' , Alte Pinakothek, Munich
• J.v. Ruisdael's 'Dune Landscape with Donkey Driver' , MdbK Leipzig
• L. Backhuysen: 'At the Harbour of Amsterdam' , Städel Museum, Frankfurt/M.