Woodland Imagery in Northern Art, c. 1500 - 1800 a figurative painter of compelling

a figurative painter of compelling power and often visionary intensity who brought rare imaginative reserves to his depiction of the world around him

encompassing four decades of work

director Johannes Cladders and artist Joseph Beuys – whose close collaboration resulted in a museum which transformed thinking about how art

Spencer Gore and Percy Wyndham Lewis – all of whom would become prominent artists in their own right

Woodland Imagery in Northern Art, c. 1500 - 1800 a figurative painter of compellingWoodland Imagery in Northern Art reconnects us with the woodland scenery that abounds in Western painting, from Albrecht Drers intense studies of verdant trees, to the works of many other Northern European artists who captured 'the truth of vegetation' in their work. These incidents of remarkable scenery in the visual arts have received little attention in the history of art, until now. Prosperetti brings together a set of essays which are devoted to