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Description: | This unsigned composition is divided diagonally with fantastic rocks and spumes of waves forming a vortex below a threatening and dramatic sky. In the middle ground massive waves drive a sailing ship with its unfortunate sailors onto rocks on the right. A mast of a sunken ship is about to be swallowed in the white spray in the right foreground. A small oculus of bright sky in the top left suggests a break in the storm. The subject is wholly characteristic of Backhuysen's oeuvre, and may have been viewed as symbolic of the dangers and uncertainty of life's voyage. | Subjects: | marine | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Backhuysen, Ludolf, I (Dutch painter, calligrapher, and printmaker, 1630-1708) Æ Attributed to school of | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8399... | Go to resource |
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