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| | Salomon Van Ruysdael - The Bridge |
 | | This is Dutch landscape at a wellbalanced moment of transition between the patterned artificiality of early Flemish work such as Patinir's, and the patternless, photographic naturalism of the later Dutch school (e.g., Jacob van Ruysdael, his nephew). |
 | | We are at a far remove from the other, more Italianate landscape school of the seventeenth century—that of Poussin and Claude Lorrain, with its vast, ordered, park-like expanses, peopled with majestic arching trees, dramatic crags and ruins, and gracefully posed classical personages. |
 | | With Salomon van Ruysdael and his contemporaries, van Goyen and Cuyp, begins the influential Dutch tradition in landscape. |
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