Joos de Momper

Atmospheric Optics, clouds and colour

Joos de Momper's clouds, sky and atmospheric optics (PDF with clickable links)
by Jan Kelch and Franz Ossing
Joos de Momper (1564 – 1635) is one of the most important Flemish painters, because his landscape paintings show the transition from the “world landscape” of the Mannerists to the naturalistic Dutch landscape painting of the 17th century.

This text is a chapter from a more extensive publication of the German Meteorological Society: "Die Vier Jahreszeiten - Der Braunschweiger Gemäldezyklus von Joos de Momper"[“The Four Seasons – the Braunschweig Painting Cycle by Joos de Momper”], German Meteorological Society (Publisher), Berlin, 1998, ISBN 3-928903-16-0, through: FU Berlin, Meteorological Institute, C.-H.-Becker-Weg 6-10, 12165 Berlin