BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:iCalendar-Ruby BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Towns\, farms\, waterways\, and woods—discover how Rembrandt\, Van Goyen\, Van Ruisdael\, and more approached these subjects as meditation s on humankind’s relationship with the environment.\n\n \n\nBetween the lat e 16th century and the early 18th century\, artists working in the Netherla nds—then known as the Dutch Republic—produced an extraordinary number of la ndscape drawings. Many of these works depicted sites that were either recog nizable as or evocative of the country’s cities\, villages\, and countrysid e. This profusion of local imagery coincided with the young country’s quest for global dominion\, as well as with war and dramatic ecological change a t home. As notions of Dutch “territory” shifted\, artists engaged with the world by drawing outside\, from direct observation—a practice repeatedly en couraged in the art theory of the period. Once back in the studio\, they co uld produce finished drawings and works in other media\, adapting observed motifs or fusing them into altered or imagined views. In so doing\, they co nstructed a selective vision of the Dutch landscape that by turns depicted\ , hinted at\, or ignored the changes occurring around them. DTEND:20220521T210000Z DTSTAMP:20260413T054312Z DTSTART:20220521T140000Z LOCATION:Harvard Art Museums SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Crossroads: Drawing the Dutch Landscape UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_39862747268493 URL:https://calendar.college.harvard.edu/event/crossroads_drawing_the_dutch _landscape END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Towns\, farms\, waterways\, and woods—discover how Rembrandt\, Van Goyen\, Van Ruisdael\, and more approached these subjects as meditation s on humankind’s relationship with the environment.\n\n \n\nBetween the lat e 16th century and the early 18th century\, artists working in the Netherla nds—then known as the Dutch Republic—produced an extraordinary number of la ndscape drawings. Many of these works depicted sites that were either recog nizable as or evocative of the country’s cities\, villages\, and countrysid e. This profusion of local imagery coincided with the young country’s quest for global dominion\, as well as with war and dramatic ecological change a t home. As notions of Dutch “territory” shifted\, artists engaged with the world by drawing outside\, from direct observation—a practice repeatedly en couraged in the art theory of the period. Once back in the studio\, they co uld produce finished drawings and works in other media\, adapting observed motifs or fusing them into altered or imagined views. In so doing\, they co nstructed a selective vision of the Dutch landscape that by turns depicted\ , hinted at\, or ignored the changes occurring around them. 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This profusion of local imagery coincided with the young country’s quest for global dominion\, as well as with war and dramatic ecological change a t home. As notions of Dutch “territory” shifted\, artists engaged with the world by drawing outside\, from direct observation—a practice repeatedly en couraged in the art theory of the period. Once back in the studio\, they co uld produce finished drawings and works in other media\, adapting observed motifs or fusing them into altered or imagined views. In so doing\, they co nstructed a selective vision of the Dutch landscape that by turns depicted\ , hinted at\, or ignored the changes occurring around them. 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This profusion of local imagery coincided with the young country’s quest for global dominion\, as well as with war and dramatic ecological change a t home. As notions of Dutch “territory” shifted\, artists engaged with the world by drawing outside\, from direct observation—a practice repeatedly en couraged in the art theory of the period. Once back in the studio\, they co uld produce finished drawings and works in other media\, adapting observed motifs or fusing them into altered or imagined views. In so doing\, they co nstructed a selective vision of the Dutch landscape that by turns depicted\ , hinted at\, or ignored the changes occurring around them. DTEND:20220525T210000Z DTSTAMP:20260413T054312Z DTSTART:20220525T140000Z LOCATION:Harvard Art Museums SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Crossroads: Drawing the Dutch Landscape UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_39862747273616 URL:https://calendar.college.harvard.edu/event/crossroads_drawing_the_dutch _landscape END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Towns\, farms\, waterways\, and woods—discover how Rembrandt\, Van Goyen\, Van Ruisdael\, and more approached these subjects as meditation s on humankind’s relationship with the environment.\n\n \n\nBetween the lat e 16th century and the early 18th century\, artists working in the Netherla nds—then known as the Dutch Republic—produced an extraordinary number of la ndscape drawings. Many of these works depicted sites that were either recog nizable as or evocative of the country’s cities\, villages\, and countrysid e. This profusion of local imagery coincided with the young country’s quest for global dominion\, as well as with war and dramatic ecological change a t home. As notions of Dutch “territory” shifted\, artists engaged with the world by drawing outside\, from direct observation—a practice repeatedly en couraged in the art theory of the period. Once back in the studio\, they co uld produce finished drawings and works in other media\, adapting observed motifs or fusing them into altered or imagined views. In so doing\, they co nstructed a selective vision of the Dutch landscape that by turns depicted\ , hinted at\, or ignored the changes occurring around them. 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This profusion of local imagery coincided with the young country’s quest for global dominion\, as well as with war and dramatic ecological change a t home. As notions of Dutch “territory” shifted\, artists engaged with the world by drawing outside\, from direct observation—a practice repeatedly en couraged in the art theory of the period. Once back in the studio\, they co uld produce finished drawings and works in other media\, adapting observed motifs or fusing them into altered or imagined views. In so doing\, they co nstructed a selective vision of the Dutch landscape that by turns depicted\ , hinted at\, or ignored the changes occurring around them. DTEND:20220527T210000Z DTSTAMP:20260413T054312Z DTSTART:20220527T140000Z LOCATION:Harvard Art Museums SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Crossroads: Drawing the Dutch Landscape UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_39862747277714 URL:https://calendar.college.harvard.edu/event/crossroads_drawing_the_dutch _landscape END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Towns\, farms\, waterways\, and woods—discover how Rembrandt\, Van Goyen\, Van Ruisdael\, and more approached these subjects as meditation s on humankind’s relationship with the environment.\n\n \n\nBetween the lat e 16th century and the early 18th century\, artists working in the Netherla nds—then known as the Dutch Republic—produced an extraordinary number of la ndscape drawings. Many of these works depicted sites that were either recog nizable as or evocative of the country’s cities\, villages\, and countrysid e. This profusion of local imagery coincided with the young country’s quest for global dominion\, as well as with war and dramatic ecological change a t home. As notions of Dutch “territory” shifted\, artists engaged with the world by drawing outside\, from direct observation—a practice repeatedly en couraged in the art theory of the period. Once back in the studio\, they co uld produce finished drawings and works in other media\, adapting observed motifs or fusing them into altered or imagined views. In so doing\, they co nstructed a selective vision of the Dutch landscape that by turns depicted\ , hinted at\, or ignored the changes occurring around them. DTEND:20220528T210000Z DTSTAMP:20260413T054312Z DTSTART:20220528T140000Z LOCATION:Harvard Art Museums SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Crossroads: Drawing the Dutch Landscape UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_39862747279763 URL:https://calendar.college.harvard.edu/event/crossroads_drawing_the_dutch _landscape END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Towns\, farms\, waterways\, and woods—discover how Rembrandt\, Van Goyen\, Van Ruisdael\, and more approached these subjects as meditation s on humankind’s relationship with the environment.\n\n \n\nBetween the lat e 16th century and the early 18th century\, artists working in the Netherla nds—then known as the Dutch Republic—produced an extraordinary number of la ndscape drawings. Many of these works depicted sites that were either recog nizable as or evocative of the country’s cities\, villages\, and countrysid e. This profusion of local imagery coincided with the young country’s quest for global dominion\, as well as with war and dramatic ecological change a t home. As notions of Dutch “territory” shifted\, artists engaged with the world by drawing outside\, from direct observation—a practice repeatedly en couraged in the art theory of the period. Once back in the studio\, they co uld produce finished drawings and works in other media\, adapting observed motifs or fusing them into altered or imagined views. In so doing\, they co nstructed a selective vision of the Dutch landscape that by turns depicted\ , hinted at\, or ignored the changes occurring around them. DTEND:20220529T210000Z DTSTAMP:20260413T054312Z DTSTART:20220529T140000Z LOCATION:Harvard Art Museums SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Crossroads: Drawing the Dutch Landscape UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_39862747281812 URL:https://calendar.college.harvard.edu/event/crossroads_drawing_the_dutch _landscape END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Towns\, farms\, waterways\, and woods—discover how Rembrandt\, Van Goyen\, Van Ruisdael\, and more approached these subjects as meditation s on humankind’s relationship with the environment.\n\n \n\nBetween the lat e 16th century and the early 18th century\, artists working in the Netherla nds—then known as the Dutch Republic—produced an extraordinary number of la ndscape drawings. Many of these works depicted sites that were either recog nizable as or evocative of the country’s cities\, villages\, and countrysid e. This profusion of local imagery coincided with the young country’s quest for global dominion\, as well as with war and dramatic ecological change a t home. As notions of Dutch “territory” shifted\, artists engaged with the world by drawing outside\, from direct observation—a practice repeatedly en couraged in the art theory of the period. Once back in the studio\, they co uld produce finished drawings and works in other media\, adapting observed motifs or fusing them into altered or imagined views. In so doing\, they co nstructed a selective vision of the Dutch landscape that by turns depicted\ , hinted at\, or ignored the changes occurring around them. DTEND:20220531T210000Z DTSTAMP:20260413T054312Z DTSTART:20220531T140000Z LOCATION:Harvard Art Museums SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Crossroads: Drawing the Dutch Landscape UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_39862747283861 URL:https://calendar.college.harvard.edu/event/crossroads_drawing_the_dutch _landscape END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Towns\, farms\, waterways\, and woods—discover how Rembrandt\, Van Goyen\, Van Ruisdael\, and more approached these subjects as meditation s on humankind’s relationship with the environment.\n\n \n\nBetween the lat e 16th century and the early 18th century\, artists working in the Netherla nds—then known as the Dutch Republic—produced an extraordinary number of la ndscape drawings. Many of these works depicted sites that were either recog nizable as or evocative of the country’s cities\, villages\, and countrysid e. This profusion of local imagery coincided with the young country’s quest for global dominion\, as well as with war and dramatic ecological change a t home. As notions of Dutch “territory” shifted\, artists engaged with the world by drawing outside\, from direct observation—a practice repeatedly en couraged in the art theory of the period. Once back in the studio\, they co uld produce finished drawings and works in other media\, adapting observed motifs or fusing them into altered or imagined views. In so doing\, they co nstructed a selective vision of the Dutch landscape that by turns depicted\ , hinted at\, or ignored the changes occurring around them. DTEND:20220601T210000Z DTSTAMP:20260413T054312Z DTSTART:20220601T140000Z LOCATION:Harvard Art Museums SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Crossroads: Drawing the Dutch Landscape UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_39862747285910 URL:https://calendar.college.harvard.edu/event/crossroads_drawing_the_dutch _landscape END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Towns\, farms\, waterways\, and woods—discover how Rembrandt\, Van Goyen\, Van Ruisdael\, and more approached these subjects as meditation s on humankind’s relationship with the environment.\n\n \n\nBetween the lat e 16th century and the early 18th century\, artists working in the Netherla nds—then known as the Dutch Republic—produced an extraordinary number of la ndscape drawings. Many of these works depicted sites that were either recog nizable as or evocative of the country’s cities\, villages\, and countrysid e. This profusion of local imagery coincided with the young country’s quest for global dominion\, as well as with war and dramatic ecological change a t home. As notions of Dutch “territory” shifted\, artists engaged with the world by drawing outside\, from direct observation—a practice repeatedly en couraged in the art theory of the period. Once back in the studio\, they co uld produce finished drawings and works in other media\, adapting observed motifs or fusing them into altered or imagined views. In so doing\, they co nstructed a selective vision of the Dutch landscape that by turns depicted\ , hinted at\, or ignored the changes occurring around them. DTEND:20220602T210000Z DTSTAMP:20260413T054312Z DTSTART:20220602T140000Z LOCATION:Harvard Art Museums SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Crossroads: Drawing the Dutch Landscape UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_39862747287959 URL:https://calendar.college.harvard.edu/event/crossroads_drawing_the_dutch _landscape END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Towns\, farms\, waterways\, and woods—discover how Rembrandt\, Van Goyen\, Van Ruisdael\, and more approached these subjects as meditation s on humankind’s relationship with the environment.\n\n \n\nBetween the lat e 16th century and the early 18th century\, artists working in the Netherla nds—then known as the Dutch Republic—produced an extraordinary number of la ndscape drawings. Many of these works depicted sites that were either recog nizable as or evocative of the country’s cities\, villages\, and countrysid e. This profusion of local imagery coincided with the young country’s quest for global dominion\, as well as with war and dramatic ecological change a t home. As notions of Dutch “territory” shifted\, artists engaged with the world by drawing outside\, from direct observation—a practice repeatedly en couraged in the art theory of the period. Once back in the studio\, they co uld produce finished drawings and works in other media\, adapting observed motifs or fusing them into altered or imagined views. In so doing\, they co nstructed a selective vision of the Dutch landscape that by turns depicted\ , hinted at\, or ignored the changes occurring around them. DTEND:20220603T210000Z DTSTAMP:20260413T054312Z DTSTART:20220603T140000Z LOCATION:Harvard Art Museums SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Crossroads: Drawing the Dutch Landscape UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_39862747288984 URL:https://calendar.college.harvard.edu/event/crossroads_drawing_the_dutch _landscape END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Towns\, farms\, waterways\, and woods—discover how Rembrandt\, Van Goyen\, Van Ruisdael\, and more approached these subjects as meditation s on humankind’s relationship with the environment.\n\n \n\nBetween the lat e 16th century and the early 18th century\, artists working in the Netherla nds—then known as the Dutch Republic—produced an extraordinary number of la ndscape drawings. Many of these works depicted sites that were either recog nizable as or evocative of the country’s cities\, villages\, and countrysid e. This profusion of local imagery coincided with the young country’s quest for global dominion\, as well as with war and dramatic ecological change a t home. As notions of Dutch “territory” shifted\, artists engaged with the world by drawing outside\, from direct observation—a practice repeatedly en couraged in the art theory of the period. Once back in the studio\, they co uld produce finished drawings and works in other media\, adapting observed motifs or fusing them into altered or imagined views. In so doing\, they co nstructed a selective vision of the Dutch landscape that by turns depicted\ , hinted at\, or ignored the changes occurring around them. DTEND:20220604T210000Z DTSTAMP:20260413T054312Z DTSTART:20220604T140000Z LOCATION:Harvard Art Museums SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Crossroads: Drawing the Dutch Landscape UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_39862747291033 URL:https://calendar.college.harvard.edu/event/crossroads_drawing_the_dutch _landscape END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Towns\, farms\, waterways\, and woods—discover how Rembrandt\, Van Goyen\, Van Ruisdael\, and more approached these subjects as meditation s on humankind’s relationship with the environment.\n\n \n\nBetween the lat e 16th century and the early 18th century\, artists working in the Netherla nds—then known as the Dutch Republic—produced an extraordinary number of la ndscape drawings. Many of these works depicted sites that were either recog nizable as or evocative of the country’s cities\, villages\, and countrysid e. This profusion of local imagery coincided with the young country’s quest for global dominion\, as well as with war and dramatic ecological change a t home. As notions of Dutch “territory” shifted\, artists engaged with the world by drawing outside\, from direct observation—a practice repeatedly en couraged in the art theory of the period. Once back in the studio\, they co uld produce finished drawings and works in other media\, adapting observed motifs or fusing them into altered or imagined views. In so doing\, they co nstructed a selective vision of the Dutch landscape that by turns depicted\ , hinted at\, or ignored the changes occurring around them. DTEND:20220605T210000Z DTSTAMP:20260413T054312Z DTSTART:20220605T140000Z LOCATION:Harvard Art Museums SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Crossroads: Drawing the Dutch Landscape UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_39862747293082 URL:https://calendar.college.harvard.edu/event/crossroads_drawing_the_dutch _landscape END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Towns\, farms\, waterways\, and woods—discover how Rembrandt\, Van Goyen\, Van Ruisdael\, and more approached these subjects as meditation s on humankind’s relationship with the environment.\n\n \n\nBetween the lat e 16th century and the early 18th century\, artists working in the Netherla nds—then known as the Dutch Republic—produced an extraordinary number of la ndscape drawings. Many of these works depicted sites that were either recog nizable as or evocative of the country’s cities\, villages\, and countrysid e. This profusion of local imagery coincided with the young country’s quest for global dominion\, as well as with war and dramatic ecological change a t home. As notions of Dutch “territory” shifted\, artists engaged with the world by drawing outside\, from direct observation—a practice repeatedly en couraged in the art theory of the period. Once back in the studio\, they co uld produce finished drawings and works in other media\, adapting observed motifs or fusing them into altered or imagined views. In so doing\, they co nstructed a selective vision of the Dutch landscape that by turns depicted\ , hinted at\, or ignored the changes occurring around them. DTEND:20220607T210000Z DTSTAMP:20260413T054312Z DTSTART:20220607T140000Z LOCATION:Harvard Art Museums SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Crossroads: Drawing the Dutch Landscape UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_39862747294107 URL:https://calendar.college.harvard.edu/event/crossroads_drawing_the_dutch _landscape END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Towns\, farms\, waterways\, and woods—discover how Rembrandt\, Van Goyen\, Van Ruisdael\, and more approached these subjects as meditation s on humankind’s relationship with the environment.\n\n \n\nBetween the lat e 16th century and the early 18th century\, artists working in the Netherla nds—then known as the Dutch Republic—produced an extraordinary number of la ndscape drawings. Many of these works depicted sites that were either recog nizable as or evocative of the country’s cities\, villages\, and countrysid e. This profusion of local imagery coincided with the young country’s quest for global dominion\, as well as with war and dramatic ecological change a t home. As notions of Dutch “territory” shifted\, artists engaged with the world by drawing outside\, from direct observation—a practice repeatedly en couraged in the art theory of the period. Once back in the studio\, they co uld produce finished drawings and works in other media\, adapting observed motifs or fusing them into altered or imagined views. In so doing\, they co nstructed a selective vision of the Dutch landscape that by turns depicted\ , hinted at\, or ignored the changes occurring around them. DTEND:20220608T210000Z DTSTAMP:20260413T054312Z DTSTART:20220608T140000Z LOCATION:Harvard Art Museums SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Crossroads: Drawing the Dutch Landscape UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_39862747296156 URL:https://calendar.college.harvard.edu/event/crossroads_drawing_the_dutch _landscape END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Towns\, farms\, waterways\, and woods—discover how Rembrandt\, Van Goyen\, Van Ruisdael\, and more approached these subjects as meditation s on humankind’s relationship with the environment.\n\n \n\nBetween the lat e 16th century and the early 18th century\, artists working in the Netherla nds—then known as the Dutch Republic—produced an extraordinary number of la ndscape drawings. Many of these works depicted sites that were either recog nizable as or evocative of the country’s cities\, villages\, and countrysid e. This profusion of local imagery coincided with the young country’s quest for global dominion\, as well as with war and dramatic ecological change a t home. As notions of Dutch “territory” shifted\, artists engaged with the world by drawing outside\, from direct observation—a practice repeatedly en couraged in the art theory of the period. Once back in the studio\, they co uld produce finished drawings and works in other media\, adapting observed motifs or fusing them into altered or imagined views. In so doing\, they co nstructed a selective vision of the Dutch landscape that by turns depicted\ , hinted at\, or ignored the changes occurring around them. DTEND:20220609T210000Z DTSTAMP:20260413T054312Z DTSTART:20220609T140000Z LOCATION:Harvard Art Museums SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Crossroads: Drawing the Dutch Landscape UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_39862747298205 URL:https://calendar.college.harvard.edu/event/crossroads_drawing_the_dutch _landscape END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Towns\, farms\, waterways\, and woods—discover how Rembrandt\, Van Goyen\, Van Ruisdael\, and more approached these subjects as meditation s on humankind’s relationship with the environment.\n\n \n\nBetween the lat e 16th century and the early 18th century\, artists working in the Netherla nds—then known as the Dutch Republic—produced an extraordinary number of la ndscape drawings. Many of these works depicted sites that were either recog nizable as or evocative of the country’s cities\, villages\, and countrysid e. This profusion of local imagery coincided with the young country’s quest for global dominion\, as well as with war and dramatic ecological change a t home. As notions of Dutch “territory” shifted\, artists engaged with the world by drawing outside\, from direct observation—a practice repeatedly en couraged in the art theory of the period. Once back in the studio\, they co uld produce finished drawings and works in other media\, adapting observed motifs or fusing them into altered or imagined views. In so doing\, they co nstructed a selective vision of the Dutch landscape that by turns depicted\ , hinted at\, or ignored the changes occurring around them. DTEND:20220610T210000Z DTSTAMP:20260413T054312Z DTSTART:20220610T140000Z LOCATION:Harvard Art Museums SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Crossroads: Drawing the Dutch Landscape UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_39862747299230 URL:https://calendar.college.harvard.edu/event/crossroads_drawing_the_dutch _landscape END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Towns\, farms\, waterways\, and woods—discover how Rembrandt\, Van Goyen\, Van Ruisdael\, and more approached these subjects as meditation s on humankind’s relationship with the environment.\n\n \n\nBetween the lat e 16th century and the early 18th century\, artists working in the Netherla nds—then known as the Dutch Republic—produced an extraordinary number of la ndscape drawings. Many of these works depicted sites that were either recog nizable as or evocative of the country’s cities\, villages\, and countrysid e. This profusion of local imagery coincided with the young country’s quest for global dominion\, as well as with war and dramatic ecological change a t home. As notions of Dutch “territory” shifted\, artists engaged with the world by drawing outside\, from direct observation—a practice repeatedly en couraged in the art theory of the period. Once back in the studio\, they co uld produce finished drawings and works in other media\, adapting observed motifs or fusing them into altered or imagined views. In so doing\, they co nstructed a selective vision of the Dutch landscape that by turns depicted\ , hinted at\, or ignored the changes occurring around them. DTEND:20220611T210000Z DTSTAMP:20260413T054312Z DTSTART:20220611T140000Z LOCATION:Harvard Art Museums SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Crossroads: Drawing the Dutch Landscape UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_39862747301279 URL:https://calendar.college.harvard.edu/event/crossroads_drawing_the_dutch _landscape END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Towns\, farms\, waterways\, and woods—discover how Rembrandt\, Van Goyen\, Van Ruisdael\, and more approached these subjects as meditation s on humankind’s relationship with the environment.\n\n \n\nBetween the lat e 16th century and the early 18th century\, artists working in the Netherla nds—then known as the Dutch Republic—produced an extraordinary number of la ndscape drawings. Many of these works depicted sites that were either recog nizable as or evocative of the country’s cities\, villages\, and countrysid e. This profusion of local imagery coincided with the young country’s quest for global dominion\, as well as with war and dramatic ecological change a t home. As notions of Dutch “territory” shifted\, artists engaged with the world by drawing outside\, from direct observation—a practice repeatedly en couraged in the art theory of the period. Once back in the studio\, they co uld produce finished drawings and works in other media\, adapting observed motifs or fusing them into altered or imagined views. In so doing\, they co nstructed a selective vision of the Dutch landscape that by turns depicted\ , hinted at\, or ignored the changes occurring around them. DTEND:20220612T210000Z DTSTAMP:20260413T054312Z DTSTART:20220612T140000Z LOCATION:Harvard Art Museums SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Crossroads: Drawing the Dutch Landscape UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_39862747302304 URL:https://calendar.college.harvard.edu/event/crossroads_drawing_the_dutch _landscape END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Towns\, farms\, waterways\, and woods—discover how Rembrandt\, Van Goyen\, Van Ruisdael\, and more approached these subjects as meditation s on humankind’s relationship with the environment.\n\n \n\nBetween the lat e 16th century and the early 18th century\, artists working in the Netherla nds—then known as the Dutch Republic—produced an extraordinary number of la ndscape drawings. Many of these works depicted sites that were either recog nizable as or evocative of the country’s cities\, villages\, and countrysid e. This profusion of local imagery coincided with the young country’s quest for global dominion\, as well as with war and dramatic ecological change a t home. As notions of Dutch “territory” shifted\, artists engaged with the world by drawing outside\, from direct observation—a practice repeatedly en couraged in the art theory of the period. Once back in the studio\, they co uld produce finished drawings and works in other media\, adapting observed motifs or fusing them into altered or imagined views. In so doing\, they co nstructed a selective vision of the Dutch landscape that by turns depicted\ , hinted at\, or ignored the changes occurring around them. DTEND:20220614T210000Z DTSTAMP:20260413T054312Z DTSTART:20220614T140000Z LOCATION:Harvard Art Museums SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Crossroads: Drawing the Dutch Landscape UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_39862747304353 URL:https://calendar.college.harvard.edu/event/crossroads_drawing_the_dutch _landscape END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Towns\, farms\, waterways\, and woods—discover how Rembrandt\, Van Goyen\, Van Ruisdael\, and more approached these subjects as meditation s on humankind’s relationship with the environment.\n\n \n\nBetween the lat e 16th century and the early 18th century\, artists working in the Netherla nds—then known as the Dutch Republic—produced an extraordinary number of la ndscape drawings. Many of these works depicted sites that were either recog nizable as or evocative of the country’s cities\, villages\, and countrysid e. This profusion of local imagery coincided with the young country’s quest for global dominion\, as well as with war and dramatic ecological change a t home. As notions of Dutch “territory” shifted\, artists engaged with the world by drawing outside\, from direct observation—a practice repeatedly en couraged in the art theory of the period. Once back in the studio\, they co uld produce finished drawings and works in other media\, adapting observed motifs or fusing them into altered or imagined views. In so doing\, they co nstructed a selective vision of the Dutch landscape that by turns depicted\ , hinted at\, or ignored the changes occurring around them. DTEND:20220615T210000Z DTSTAMP:20260413T054312Z DTSTART:20220615T140000Z LOCATION:Harvard Art Museums SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Crossroads: Drawing the Dutch Landscape UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_39862747306402 URL:https://calendar.college.harvard.edu/event/crossroads_drawing_the_dutch _landscape END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Towns\, farms\, waterways\, and woods—discover how Rembrandt\, Van Goyen\, Van Ruisdael\, and more approached these subjects as meditation s on humankind’s relationship with the environment.\n\n \n\nBetween the lat e 16th century and the early 18th century\, artists working in the Netherla nds—then known as the Dutch Republic—produced an extraordinary number of la ndscape drawings. Many of these works depicted sites that were either recog nizable as or evocative of the country’s cities\, villages\, and countrysid e. This profusion of local imagery coincided with the young country’s quest for global dominion\, as well as with war and dramatic ecological change a t home. As notions of Dutch “territory” shifted\, artists engaged with the world by drawing outside\, from direct observation—a practice repeatedly en couraged in the art theory of the period. Once back in the studio\, they co uld produce finished drawings and works in other media\, adapting observed motifs or fusing them into altered or imagined views. In so doing\, they co nstructed a selective vision of the Dutch landscape that by turns depicted\ , hinted at\, or ignored the changes occurring around them. DTEND:20220616T210000Z DTSTAMP:20260413T054312Z DTSTART:20220616T140000Z LOCATION:Harvard Art Museums SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Crossroads: Drawing the Dutch Landscape UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_39862747308451 URL:https://calendar.college.harvard.edu/event/crossroads_drawing_the_dutch _landscape END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Towns\, farms\, waterways\, and woods—discover how Rembrandt\, Van Goyen\, Van Ruisdael\, and more approached these subjects as meditation s on humankind’s relationship with the environment.\n\n \n\nBetween the lat e 16th century and the early 18th century\, artists working in the Netherla nds—then known as the Dutch Republic—produced an extraordinary number of la ndscape drawings. Many of these works depicted sites that were either recog nizable as or evocative of the country’s cities\, villages\, and countrysid e. This profusion of local imagery coincided with the young country’s quest for global dominion\, as well as with war and dramatic ecological change a t home. As notions of Dutch “territory” shifted\, artists engaged with the world by drawing outside\, from direct observation—a practice repeatedly en couraged in the art theory of the period. Once back in the studio\, they co uld produce finished drawings and works in other media\, adapting observed motifs or fusing them into altered or imagined views. In so doing\, they co nstructed a selective vision of the Dutch landscape that by turns depicted\ , hinted at\, or ignored the changes occurring around them. DTEND:20220617T210000Z DTSTAMP:20260413T054312Z DTSTART:20220617T140000Z LOCATION:Harvard Art Museums SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Crossroads: Drawing the Dutch Landscape UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_39862747310500 URL:https://calendar.college.harvard.edu/event/crossroads_drawing_the_dutch _landscape END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Towns\, farms\, waterways\, and woods—discover how Rembrandt\, Van Goyen\, Van Ruisdael\, and more approached these subjects as meditation s on humankind’s relationship with the environment.\n\n \n\nBetween the lat e 16th century and the early 18th century\, artists working in the Netherla nds—then known as the Dutch Republic—produced an extraordinary number of la ndscape drawings. Many of these works depicted sites that were either recog nizable as or evocative of the country’s cities\, villages\, and countrysid e. This profusion of local imagery coincided with the young country’s quest for global dominion\, as well as with war and dramatic ecological change a t home. As notions of Dutch “territory” shifted\, artists engaged with the world by drawing outside\, from direct observation—a practice repeatedly en couraged in the art theory of the period. Once back in the studio\, they co uld produce finished drawings and works in other media\, adapting observed motifs or fusing them into altered or imagined views. In so doing\, they co nstructed a selective vision of the Dutch landscape that by turns depicted\ , hinted at\, or ignored the changes occurring around them. DTEND:20220618T210000Z DTSTAMP:20260413T054312Z DTSTART:20220618T140000Z LOCATION:Harvard Art Museums SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Crossroads: Drawing the Dutch Landscape UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_39862747312549 URL:https://calendar.college.harvard.edu/event/crossroads_drawing_the_dutch _landscape END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Towns\, farms\, waterways\, and woods—discover how Rembrandt\, Van Goyen\, Van Ruisdael\, and more approached these subjects as meditation s on humankind’s relationship with the environment.\n\n \n\nBetween the lat e 16th century and the early 18th century\, artists working in the Netherla nds—then known as the Dutch Republic—produced an extraordinary number of la ndscape drawings. Many of these works depicted sites that were either recog nizable as or evocative of the country’s cities\, villages\, and countrysid e. This profusion of local imagery coincided with the young country’s quest for global dominion\, as well as with war and dramatic ecological change a t home. As notions of Dutch “territory” shifted\, artists engaged with the world by drawing outside\, from direct observation—a practice repeatedly en couraged in the art theory of the period. Once back in the studio\, they co uld produce finished drawings and works in other media\, adapting observed motifs or fusing them into altered or imagined views. In so doing\, they co nstructed a selective vision of the Dutch landscape that by turns depicted\ , hinted at\, or ignored the changes occurring around them. DTEND:20220619T210000Z DTSTAMP:20260413T054312Z DTSTART:20220619T140000Z LOCATION:Harvard Art Museums SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Crossroads: Drawing the Dutch Landscape UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_39862747315622 URL:https://calendar.college.harvard.edu/event/crossroads_drawing_the_dutch _landscape END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Towns\, farms\, waterways\, and woods—discover how Rembrandt\, Van Goyen\, Van Ruisdael\, and more approached these subjects as meditation s on humankind’s relationship with the environment.\n\n \n\nBetween the lat e 16th century and the early 18th century\, artists working in the Netherla nds—then known as the Dutch Republic—produced an extraordinary number of la ndscape drawings. Many of these works depicted sites that were either recog nizable as or evocative of the country’s cities\, villages\, and countrysid e. This profusion of local imagery coincided with the young country’s quest for global dominion\, as well as with war and dramatic ecological change a t home. As notions of Dutch “territory” shifted\, artists engaged with the world by drawing outside\, from direct observation—a practice repeatedly en couraged in the art theory of the period. Once back in the studio\, they co uld produce finished drawings and works in other media\, adapting observed motifs or fusing them into altered or imagined views. In so doing\, they co nstructed a selective vision of the Dutch landscape that by turns depicted\ , hinted at\, or ignored the changes occurring around them. DTEND:20220621T210000Z DTSTAMP:20260413T054312Z DTSTART:20220621T140000Z LOCATION:Harvard Art Museums SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Crossroads: Drawing the Dutch Landscape UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_39862747316647 URL:https://calendar.college.harvard.edu/event/crossroads_drawing_the_dutch _landscape END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Towns\, farms\, waterways\, and woods—discover how Rembrandt\, Van Goyen\, Van Ruisdael\, and more approached these subjects as meditation s on humankind’s relationship with the environment.\n\n \n\nBetween the lat e 16th century and the early 18th century\, artists working in the Netherla nds—then known as the Dutch Republic—produced an extraordinary number of la ndscape drawings. Many of these works depicted sites that were either recog nizable as or evocative of the country’s cities\, villages\, and countrysid e. This profusion of local imagery coincided with the young country’s quest for global dominion\, as well as with war and dramatic ecological change a t home. As notions of Dutch “territory” shifted\, artists engaged with the world by drawing outside\, from direct observation—a practice repeatedly en couraged in the art theory of the period. Once back in the studio\, they co uld produce finished drawings and works in other media\, adapting observed motifs or fusing them into altered or imagined views. In so doing\, they co nstructed a selective vision of the Dutch landscape that by turns depicted\ , hinted at\, or ignored the changes occurring around them. DTEND:20220622T210000Z DTSTAMP:20260413T054312Z DTSTART:20220622T140000Z LOCATION:Harvard Art Museums SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Crossroads: Drawing the Dutch Landscape UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_39862747318696 URL:https://calendar.college.harvard.edu/event/crossroads_drawing_the_dutch _landscape END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Towns\, farms\, waterways\, and woods—discover how Rembrandt\, Van Goyen\, Van Ruisdael\, and more approached these subjects as meditation s on humankind’s relationship with the environment.\n\n \n\nBetween the lat e 16th century and the early 18th century\, artists working in the Netherla nds—then known as the Dutch Republic—produced an extraordinary number of la ndscape drawings. Many of these works depicted sites that were either recog nizable as or evocative of the country’s cities\, villages\, and countrysid e. This profusion of local imagery coincided with the young country’s quest for global dominion\, as well as with war and dramatic ecological change a t home. As notions of Dutch “territory” shifted\, artists engaged with the world by drawing outside\, from direct observation—a practice repeatedly en couraged in the art theory of the period. Once back in the studio\, they co uld produce finished drawings and works in other media\, adapting observed motifs or fusing them into altered or imagined views. In so doing\, they co nstructed a selective vision of the Dutch landscape that by turns depicted\ , hinted at\, or ignored the changes occurring around them. DTEND:20220623T210000Z DTSTAMP:20260413T054312Z DTSTART:20220623T140000Z LOCATION:Harvard Art Museums SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Crossroads: Drawing the Dutch Landscape UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_39862747320745 URL:https://calendar.college.harvard.edu/event/crossroads_drawing_the_dutch _landscape END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Towns\, farms\, waterways\, and woods—discover how Rembrandt\, Van Goyen\, Van Ruisdael\, and more approached these subjects as meditation s on humankind’s relationship with the environment.\n\n \n\nBetween the lat e 16th century and the early 18th century\, artists working in the Netherla nds—then known as the Dutch Republic—produced an extraordinary number of la ndscape drawings. Many of these works depicted sites that were either recog nizable as or evocative of the country’s cities\, villages\, and countrysid e. This profusion of local imagery coincided with the young country’s quest for global dominion\, as well as with war and dramatic ecological change a t home. As notions of Dutch “territory” shifted\, artists engaged with the world by drawing outside\, from direct observation—a practice repeatedly en couraged in the art theory of the period. Once back in the studio\, they co uld produce finished drawings and works in other media\, adapting observed motifs or fusing them into altered or imagined views. In so doing\, they co nstructed a selective vision of the Dutch landscape that by turns depicted\ , hinted at\, or ignored the changes occurring around them. DTEND:20220624T210000Z DTSTAMP:20260413T054312Z DTSTART:20220624T140000Z LOCATION:Harvard Art Museums SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Crossroads: Drawing the Dutch Landscape UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_39862747322794 URL:https://calendar.college.harvard.edu/event/crossroads_drawing_the_dutch _landscape END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Towns\, farms\, waterways\, and woods—discover how Rembrandt\, Van Goyen\, Van Ruisdael\, and more approached these subjects as meditation s on humankind’s relationship with the environment.\n\n \n\nBetween the lat e 16th century and the early 18th century\, artists working in the Netherla nds—then known as the Dutch Republic—produced an extraordinary number of la ndscape drawings. Many of these works depicted sites that were either recog nizable as or evocative of the country’s cities\, villages\, and countrysid e. This profusion of local imagery coincided with the young country’s quest for global dominion\, as well as with war and dramatic ecological change a t home. As notions of Dutch “territory” shifted\, artists engaged with the world by drawing outside\, from direct observation—a practice repeatedly en couraged in the art theory of the period. Once back in the studio\, they co uld produce finished drawings and works in other media\, adapting observed motifs or fusing them into altered or imagined views. In so doing\, they co nstructed a selective vision of the Dutch landscape that by turns depicted\ , hinted at\, or ignored the changes occurring around them. DTEND:20220625T210000Z DTSTAMP:20260413T054312Z DTSTART:20220625T140000Z LOCATION:Harvard Art Museums SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Crossroads: Drawing the Dutch Landscape UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_39862747324843 URL:https://calendar.college.harvard.edu/event/crossroads_drawing_the_dutch _landscape END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Towns\, farms\, waterways\, and woods—discover how Rembrandt\, Van Goyen\, Van Ruisdael\, and more approached these subjects as meditation s on humankind’s relationship with the environment.\n\n \n\nBetween the lat e 16th century and the early 18th century\, artists working in the Netherla nds—then known as the Dutch Republic—produced an extraordinary number of la ndscape drawings. Many of these works depicted sites that were either recog nizable as or evocative of the country’s cities\, villages\, and countrysid e. This profusion of local imagery coincided with the young country’s quest for global dominion\, as well as with war and dramatic ecological change a t home. As notions of Dutch “territory” shifted\, artists engaged with the world by drawing outside\, from direct observation—a practice repeatedly en couraged in the art theory of the period. Once back in the studio\, they co uld produce finished drawings and works in other media\, adapting observed motifs or fusing them into altered or imagined views. In so doing\, they co nstructed a selective vision of the Dutch landscape that by turns depicted\ , hinted at\, or ignored the changes occurring around them. DTEND:20220626T210000Z DTSTAMP:20260413T054312Z DTSTART:20220626T140000Z LOCATION:Harvard Art Museums SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Crossroads: Drawing the Dutch Landscape UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_39862747326892 URL:https://calendar.college.harvard.edu/event/crossroads_drawing_the_dutch _landscape END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Towns\, farms\, waterways\, and woods—discover how Rembrandt\, Van Goyen\, Van Ruisdael\, and more approached these subjects as meditation s on humankind’s relationship with the environment.\n\n \n\nBetween the lat e 16th century and the early 18th century\, artists working in the Netherla nds—then known as the Dutch Republic—produced an extraordinary number of la ndscape drawings. Many of these works depicted sites that were either recog nizable as or evocative of the country’s cities\, villages\, and countrysid e. This profusion of local imagery coincided with the young country’s quest for global dominion\, as well as with war and dramatic ecological change a t home. As notions of Dutch “territory” shifted\, artists engaged with the world by drawing outside\, from direct observation—a practice repeatedly en couraged in the art theory of the period. Once back in the studio\, they co uld produce finished drawings and works in other media\, adapting observed motifs or fusing them into altered or imagined views. In so doing\, they co nstructed a selective vision of the Dutch landscape that by turns depicted\ , hinted at\, or ignored the changes occurring around them. DTEND:20220628T210000Z DTSTAMP:20260413T054312Z DTSTART:20220628T140000Z LOCATION:Harvard Art Museums SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Crossroads: Drawing the Dutch Landscape UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_39862747327917 URL:https://calendar.college.harvard.edu/event/crossroads_drawing_the_dutch _landscape END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Towns\, farms\, waterways\, and woods—discover how Rembrandt\, Van Goyen\, Van Ruisdael\, and more approached these subjects as meditation s on humankind’s relationship with the environment.\n\n \n\nBetween the lat e 16th century and the early 18th century\, artists working in the Netherla nds—then known as the Dutch Republic—produced an extraordinary number of la ndscape drawings. Many of these works depicted sites that were either recog nizable as or evocative of the country’s cities\, villages\, and countrysid e. This profusion of local imagery coincided with the young country’s quest for global dominion\, as well as with war and dramatic ecological change a t home. As notions of Dutch “territory” shifted\, artists engaged with the world by drawing outside\, from direct observation—a practice repeatedly en couraged in the art theory of the period. Once back in the studio\, they co uld produce finished drawings and works in other media\, adapting observed motifs or fusing them into altered or imagined views. In so doing\, they co nstructed a selective vision of the Dutch landscape that by turns depicted\ , hinted at\, or ignored the changes occurring around them. DTEND:20220629T210000Z DTSTAMP:20260413T054312Z DTSTART:20220629T140000Z LOCATION:Harvard Art Museums SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Crossroads: Drawing the Dutch Landscape UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_39862747329966 URL:https://calendar.college.harvard.edu/event/crossroads_drawing_the_dutch _landscape END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Towns\, farms\, waterways\, and woods—discover how Rembrandt\, Van Goyen\, Van Ruisdael\, and more approached these subjects as meditation s on humankind’s relationship with the environment.\n\n \n\nBetween the lat e 16th century and the early 18th century\, artists working in the Netherla nds—then known as the Dutch Republic—produced an extraordinary number of la ndscape drawings. Many of these works depicted sites that were either recog nizable as or evocative of the country’s cities\, villages\, and countrysid e. This profusion of local imagery coincided with the young country’s quest for global dominion\, as well as with war and dramatic ecological change a t home. As notions of Dutch “territory” shifted\, artists engaged with the world by drawing outside\, from direct observation—a practice repeatedly en couraged in the art theory of the period. Once back in the studio\, they co uld produce finished drawings and works in other media\, adapting observed motifs or fusing them into altered or imagined views. In so doing\, they co nstructed a selective vision of the Dutch landscape that by turns depicted\ , hinted at\, or ignored the changes occurring around them. DTEND:20220630T210000Z DTSTAMP:20260413T054312Z DTSTART:20220630T140000Z LOCATION:Harvard Art Museums SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Crossroads: Drawing the Dutch Landscape UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_39862747330991 URL:https://calendar.college.harvard.edu/event/crossroads_drawing_the_dutch _landscape END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Towns\, farms\, waterways\, and woods—discover how Rembrandt\, Van Goyen\, Van Ruisdael\, and more approached these subjects as meditation s on humankind’s relationship with the environment.\n\n \n\nBetween the lat e 16th century and the early 18th century\, artists working in the Netherla nds—then known as the Dutch Republic—produced an extraordinary number of la ndscape drawings. Many of these works depicted sites that were either recog nizable as or evocative of the country’s cities\, villages\, and countrysid e. This profusion of local imagery coincided with the young country’s quest for global dominion\, as well as with war and dramatic ecological change a t home. As notions of Dutch “territory” shifted\, artists engaged with the world by drawing outside\, from direct observation—a practice repeatedly en couraged in the art theory of the period. Once back in the studio\, they co uld produce finished drawings and works in other media\, adapting observed motifs or fusing them into altered or imagined views. In so doing\, they co nstructed a selective vision of the Dutch landscape that by turns depicted\ , hinted at\, or ignored the changes occurring around them. DTEND:20220701T210000Z DTSTAMP:20260413T054312Z DTSTART:20220701T140000Z LOCATION:Harvard Art Museums SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Crossroads: Drawing the Dutch Landscape UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_39862747333040 URL:https://calendar.college.harvard.edu/event/crossroads_drawing_the_dutch _landscape END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Towns\, farms\, waterways\, and woods—discover how Rembrandt\, Van Goyen\, Van Ruisdael\, and more approached these subjects as meditation s on humankind’s relationship with the environment.\n\n \n\nBetween the lat e 16th century and the early 18th century\, artists working in the Netherla nds—then known as the Dutch Republic—produced an extraordinary number of la ndscape drawings. Many of these works depicted sites that were either recog nizable as or evocative of the country’s cities\, villages\, and countrysid e. This profusion of local imagery coincided with the young country’s quest for global dominion\, as well as with war and dramatic ecological change a t home. As notions of Dutch “territory” shifted\, artists engaged with the world by drawing outside\, from direct observation—a practice repeatedly en couraged in the art theory of the period. Once back in the studio\, they co uld produce finished drawings and works in other media\, adapting observed motifs or fusing them into altered or imagined views. In so doing\, they co nstructed a selective vision of the Dutch landscape that by turns depicted\ , hinted at\, or ignored the changes occurring around them. DTEND:20220702T210000Z DTSTAMP:20260413T054312Z DTSTART:20220702T140000Z LOCATION:Harvard Art Museums SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Crossroads: Drawing the Dutch Landscape UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_39862747334065 URL:https://calendar.college.harvard.edu/event/crossroads_drawing_the_dutch _landscape END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Towns\, farms\, waterways\, and woods—discover how Rembrandt\, Van Goyen\, Van Ruisdael\, and more approached these subjects as meditation s on humankind’s relationship with the environment.\n\n \n\nBetween the lat e 16th century and the early 18th century\, artists working in the Netherla nds—then known as the Dutch Republic—produced an extraordinary number of la ndscape drawings. Many of these works depicted sites that were either recog nizable as or evocative of the country’s cities\, villages\, and countrysid e. This profusion of local imagery coincided with the young country’s quest for global dominion\, as well as with war and dramatic ecological change a t home. As notions of Dutch “territory” shifted\, artists engaged with the world by drawing outside\, from direct observation—a practice repeatedly en couraged in the art theory of the period. Once back in the studio\, they co uld produce finished drawings and works in other media\, adapting observed motifs or fusing them into altered or imagined views. In so doing\, they co nstructed a selective vision of the Dutch landscape that by turns depicted\ , hinted at\, or ignored the changes occurring around them. DTEND:20220703T210000Z DTSTAMP:20260413T054312Z DTSTART:20220703T140000Z LOCATION:Harvard Art Museums SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Crossroads: Drawing the Dutch Landscape UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_39862747336114 URL:https://calendar.college.harvard.edu/event/crossroads_drawing_the_dutch _landscape END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Towns\, farms\, waterways\, and woods—discover how Rembrandt\, Van Goyen\, Van Ruisdael\, and more approached these subjects as meditation s on humankind’s relationship with the environment.\n\n \n\nBetween the lat e 16th century and the early 18th century\, artists working in the Netherla nds—then known as the Dutch Republic—produced an extraordinary number of la ndscape drawings. Many of these works depicted sites that were either recog nizable as or evocative of the country’s cities\, villages\, and countrysid e. This profusion of local imagery coincided with the young country’s quest for global dominion\, as well as with war and dramatic ecological change a t home. As notions of Dutch “territory” shifted\, artists engaged with the world by drawing outside\, from direct observation—a practice repeatedly en couraged in the art theory of the period. Once back in the studio\, they co uld produce finished drawings and works in other media\, adapting observed motifs or fusing them into altered or imagined views. In so doing\, they co nstructed a selective vision of the Dutch landscape that by turns depicted\ , hinted at\, or ignored the changes occurring around them. DTEND:20220705T210000Z DTSTAMP:20260413T054312Z DTSTART:20220705T140000Z LOCATION:Harvard Art Museums SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Crossroads: Drawing the Dutch Landscape UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_39862747338163 URL:https://calendar.college.harvard.edu/event/crossroads_drawing_the_dutch _landscape END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Towns\, farms\, waterways\, and woods—discover how Rembrandt\, Van Goyen\, Van Ruisdael\, and more approached these subjects as meditation s on humankind’s relationship with the environment.\n\n \n\nBetween the lat e 16th century and the early 18th century\, artists working in the Netherla nds—then known as the Dutch Republic—produced an extraordinary number of la ndscape drawings. Many of these works depicted sites that were either recog nizable as or evocative of the country’s cities\, villages\, and countrysid e. This profusion of local imagery coincided with the young country’s quest for global dominion\, as well as with war and dramatic ecological change a t home. As notions of Dutch “territory” shifted\, artists engaged with the world by drawing outside\, from direct observation—a practice repeatedly en couraged in the art theory of the period. Once back in the studio\, they co uld produce finished drawings and works in other media\, adapting observed motifs or fusing them into altered or imagined views. In so doing\, they co nstructed a selective vision of the Dutch landscape that by turns depicted\ , hinted at\, or ignored the changes occurring around them. DTEND:20220706T210000Z DTSTAMP:20260413T054312Z DTSTART:20220706T140000Z LOCATION:Harvard Art Museums SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Crossroads: Drawing the Dutch Landscape UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_39862747339188 URL:https://calendar.college.harvard.edu/event/crossroads_drawing_the_dutch _landscape END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Towns\, farms\, waterways\, and woods—discover how Rembrandt\, Van Goyen\, Van Ruisdael\, and more approached these subjects as meditation s on humankind’s relationship with the environment.\n\n \n\nBetween the lat e 16th century and the early 18th century\, artists working in the Netherla nds—then known as the Dutch Republic—produced an extraordinary number of la ndscape drawings. Many of these works depicted sites that were either recog nizable as or evocative of the country’s cities\, villages\, and countrysid e. This profusion of local imagery coincided with the young country’s quest for global dominion\, as well as with war and dramatic ecological change a t home. As notions of Dutch “territory” shifted\, artists engaged with the world by drawing outside\, from direct observation—a practice repeatedly en couraged in the art theory of the period. Once back in the studio\, they co uld produce finished drawings and works in other media\, adapting observed motifs or fusing them into altered or imagined views. In so doing\, they co nstructed a selective vision of the Dutch landscape that by turns depicted\ , hinted at\, or ignored the changes occurring around them. DTEND:20220707T210000Z DTSTAMP:20260413T054312Z DTSTART:20220707T140000Z LOCATION:Harvard Art Museums SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Crossroads: Drawing the Dutch Landscape UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_39862747341237 URL:https://calendar.college.harvard.edu/event/crossroads_drawing_the_dutch _landscape END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Towns\, farms\, waterways\, and woods—discover how Rembrandt\, Van Goyen\, Van Ruisdael\, and more approached these subjects as meditation s on humankind’s relationship with the environment.\n\n \n\nBetween the lat e 16th century and the early 18th century\, artists working in the Netherla nds—then known as the Dutch Republic—produced an extraordinary number of la ndscape drawings. Many of these works depicted sites that were either recog nizable as or evocative of the country’s cities\, villages\, and countrysid e. This profusion of local imagery coincided with the young country’s quest for global dominion\, as well as with war and dramatic ecological change a t home. As notions of Dutch “territory” shifted\, artists engaged with the world by drawing outside\, from direct observation—a practice repeatedly en couraged in the art theory of the period. Once back in the studio\, they co uld produce finished drawings and works in other media\, adapting observed motifs or fusing them into altered or imagined views. In so doing\, they co nstructed a selective vision of the Dutch landscape that by turns depicted\ , hinted at\, or ignored the changes occurring around them. DTEND:20220708T210000Z DTSTAMP:20260413T054312Z DTSTART:20220708T140000Z LOCATION:Harvard Art Museums SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Crossroads: Drawing the Dutch Landscape UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_39862747343286 URL:https://calendar.college.harvard.edu/event/crossroads_drawing_the_dutch _landscape END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Towns\, farms\, waterways\, and woods—discover how Rembrandt\, Van Goyen\, Van Ruisdael\, and more approached these subjects as meditation s on humankind’s relationship with the environment.\n\n \n\nBetween the lat e 16th century and the early 18th century\, artists working in the Netherla nds—then known as the Dutch Republic—produced an extraordinary number of la ndscape drawings. Many of these works depicted sites that were either recog nizable as or evocative of the country’s cities\, villages\, and countrysid e. This profusion of local imagery coincided with the young country’s quest for global dominion\, as well as with war and dramatic ecological change a t home. As notions of Dutch “territory” shifted\, artists engaged with the world by drawing outside\, from direct observation—a practice repeatedly en couraged in the art theory of the period. Once back in the studio\, they co uld produce finished drawings and works in other media\, adapting observed motifs or fusing them into altered or imagined views. In so doing\, they co nstructed a selective vision of the Dutch landscape that by turns depicted\ , hinted at\, or ignored the changes occurring around them. DTEND:20220709T210000Z DTSTAMP:20260413T054312Z DTSTART:20220709T140000Z LOCATION:Harvard Art Museums SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Crossroads: Drawing the Dutch Landscape UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_39862747344311 URL:https://calendar.college.harvard.edu/event/crossroads_drawing_the_dutch _landscape END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Towns\, farms\, waterways\, and woods—discover how Rembrandt\, Van Goyen\, Van Ruisdael\, and more approached these subjects as meditation s on humankind’s relationship with the environment.\n\n \n\nBetween the lat e 16th century and the early 18th century\, artists working in the Netherla nds—then known as the Dutch Republic—produced an extraordinary number of la ndscape drawings. Many of these works depicted sites that were either recog nizable as or evocative of the country’s cities\, villages\, and countrysid e. This profusion of local imagery coincided with the young country’s quest for global dominion\, as well as with war and dramatic ecological change a t home. As notions of Dutch “territory” shifted\, artists engaged with the world by drawing outside\, from direct observation—a practice repeatedly en couraged in the art theory of the period. Once back in the studio\, they co uld produce finished drawings and works in other media\, adapting observed motifs or fusing them into altered or imagined views. In so doing\, they co nstructed a selective vision of the Dutch landscape that by turns depicted\ , hinted at\, or ignored the changes occurring around them. DTEND:20220710T210000Z DTSTAMP:20260413T054312Z DTSTART:20220710T140000Z LOCATION:Harvard Art Museums SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Crossroads: Drawing the Dutch Landscape UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_39862747346360 URL:https://calendar.college.harvard.edu/event/crossroads_drawing_the_dutch _landscape END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Towns\, farms\, waterways\, and woods—discover how Rembrandt\, Van Goyen\, Van Ruisdael\, and more approached these subjects as meditation s on humankind’s relationship with the environment.\n\n \n\nBetween the lat e 16th century and the early 18th century\, artists working in the Netherla nds—then known as the Dutch Republic—produced an extraordinary number of la ndscape drawings. Many of these works depicted sites that were either recog nizable as or evocative of the country’s cities\, villages\, and countrysid e. This profusion of local imagery coincided with the young country’s quest for global dominion\, as well as with war and dramatic ecological change a t home. As notions of Dutch “territory” shifted\, artists engaged with the world by drawing outside\, from direct observation—a practice repeatedly en couraged in the art theory of the period. Once back in the studio\, they co uld produce finished drawings and works in other media\, adapting observed motifs or fusing them into altered or imagined views. In so doing\, they co nstructed a selective vision of the Dutch landscape that by turns depicted\ , hinted at\, or ignored the changes occurring around them. DTEND:20220712T210000Z DTSTAMP:20260413T054313Z DTSTART:20220712T140000Z LOCATION:Harvard Art Museums SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Crossroads: Drawing the Dutch Landscape UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_39862747348409 URL:https://calendar.college.harvard.edu/event/crossroads_drawing_the_dutch _landscape END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Towns\, farms\, waterways\, and woods—discover how Rembrandt\, Van Goyen\, Van Ruisdael\, and more approached these subjects as meditation s on humankind’s relationship with the environment.\n\n \n\nBetween the lat e 16th century and the early 18th century\, artists working in the Netherla nds—then known as the Dutch Republic—produced an extraordinary number of la ndscape drawings. Many of these works depicted sites that were either recog nizable as or evocative of the country’s cities\, villages\, and countrysid e. This profusion of local imagery coincided with the young country’s quest for global dominion\, as well as with war and dramatic ecological change a t home. As notions of Dutch “territory” shifted\, artists engaged with the world by drawing outside\, from direct observation—a practice repeatedly en couraged in the art theory of the period. Once back in the studio\, they co uld produce finished drawings and works in other media\, adapting observed motifs or fusing them into altered or imagined views. In so doing\, they co nstructed a selective vision of the Dutch landscape that by turns depicted\ , hinted at\, or ignored the changes occurring around them. DTEND:20220713T210000Z DTSTAMP:20260413T054313Z DTSTART:20220713T140000Z LOCATION:Harvard Art Museums SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Crossroads: Drawing the Dutch Landscape UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_39862747349434 URL:https://calendar.college.harvard.edu/event/crossroads_drawing_the_dutch _landscape END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Towns\, farms\, waterways\, and woods—discover how Rembrandt\, Van Goyen\, Van Ruisdael\, and more approached these subjects as meditation s on humankind’s relationship with the environment.\n\n \n\nBetween the lat e 16th century and the early 18th century\, artists working in the Netherla nds—then known as the Dutch Republic—produced an extraordinary number of la ndscape drawings. Many of these works depicted sites that were either recog nizable as or evocative of the country’s cities\, villages\, and countrysid e. This profusion of local imagery coincided with the young country’s quest for global dominion\, as well as with war and dramatic ecological change a t home. As notions of Dutch “territory” shifted\, artists engaged with the world by drawing outside\, from direct observation—a practice repeatedly en couraged in the art theory of the period. Once back in the studio\, they co uld produce finished drawings and works in other media\, adapting observed motifs or fusing them into altered or imagined views. In so doing\, they co nstructed a selective vision of the Dutch landscape that by turns depicted\ , hinted at\, or ignored the changes occurring around them. DTEND:20220714T210000Z DTSTAMP:20260413T054313Z DTSTART:20220714T140000Z LOCATION:Harvard Art Museums SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Crossroads: Drawing the Dutch Landscape UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_39862747351483 URL:https://calendar.college.harvard.edu/event/crossroads_drawing_the_dutch _landscape END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Towns\, farms\, waterways\, and woods—discover how Rembrandt\, Van Goyen\, Van Ruisdael\, and more approached these subjects as meditation s on humankind’s relationship with the environment.\n\n \n\nBetween the lat e 16th century and the early 18th century\, artists working in the Netherla nds—then known as the Dutch Republic—produced an extraordinary number of la ndscape drawings. Many of these works depicted sites that were either recog nizable as or evocative of the country’s cities\, villages\, and countrysid e. This profusion of local imagery coincided with the young country’s quest for global dominion\, as well as with war and dramatic ecological change a t home. As notions of Dutch “territory” shifted\, artists engaged with the world by drawing outside\, from direct observation—a practice repeatedly en couraged in the art theory of the period. Once back in the studio\, they co uld produce finished drawings and works in other media\, adapting observed motifs or fusing them into altered or imagined views. In so doing\, they co nstructed a selective vision of the Dutch landscape that by turns depicted\ , hinted at\, or ignored the changes occurring around them. DTEND:20220715T210000Z DTSTAMP:20260413T054313Z DTSTART:20220715T140000Z LOCATION:Harvard Art Museums SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Crossroads: Drawing the Dutch Landscape UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_39862747352508 URL:https://calendar.college.harvard.edu/event/crossroads_drawing_the_dutch _landscape END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Towns\, farms\, waterways\, and woods—discover how Rembrandt\, Van Goyen\, Van Ruisdael\, and more approached these subjects as meditation s on humankind’s relationship with the environment.\n\n \n\nBetween the lat e 16th century and the early 18th century\, artists working in the Netherla nds—then known as the Dutch Republic—produced an extraordinary number of la ndscape drawings. Many of these works depicted sites that were either recog nizable as or evocative of the country’s cities\, villages\, and countrysid e. This profusion of local imagery coincided with the young country’s quest for global dominion\, as well as with war and dramatic ecological change a t home. As notions of Dutch “territory” shifted\, artists engaged with the world by drawing outside\, from direct observation—a practice repeatedly en couraged in the art theory of the period. Once back in the studio\, they co uld produce finished drawings and works in other media\, adapting observed motifs or fusing them into altered or imagined views. In so doing\, they co nstructed a selective vision of the Dutch landscape that by turns depicted\ , hinted at\, or ignored the changes occurring around them. DTEND:20220716T210000Z DTSTAMP:20260413T054313Z DTSTART:20220716T140000Z LOCATION:Harvard Art Museums SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Crossroads: Drawing the Dutch Landscape UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_39862747354557 URL:https://calendar.college.harvard.edu/event/crossroads_drawing_the_dutch _landscape END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Towns\, farms\, waterways\, and woods—discover how Rembrandt\, Van Goyen\, Van Ruisdael\, and more approached these subjects as meditation s on humankind’s relationship with the environment.\n\n \n\nBetween the lat e 16th century and the early 18th century\, artists working in the Netherla nds—then known as the Dutch Republic—produced an extraordinary number of la ndscape drawings. Many of these works depicted sites that were either recog nizable as or evocative of the country’s cities\, villages\, and countrysid e. This profusion of local imagery coincided with the young country’s quest for global dominion\, as well as with war and dramatic ecological change a t home. As notions of Dutch “territory” shifted\, artists engaged with the world by drawing outside\, from direct observation—a practice repeatedly en couraged in the art theory of the period. Once back in the studio\, they co uld produce finished drawings and works in other media\, adapting observed motifs or fusing them into altered or imagined views. In so doing\, they co nstructed a selective vision of the Dutch landscape that by turns depicted\ , hinted at\, or ignored the changes occurring around them. DTEND:20220717T210000Z DTSTAMP:20260413T054313Z DTSTART:20220717T140000Z LOCATION:Harvard Art Museums SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Crossroads: Drawing the Dutch Landscape UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_39862747355582 URL:https://calendar.college.harvard.edu/event/crossroads_drawing_the_dutch _landscape END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Towns\, farms\, waterways\, and woods—discover how Rembrandt\, Van Goyen\, Van Ruisdael\, and more approached these subjects as meditation s on humankind’s relationship with the environment.\n\n \n\nBetween the lat e 16th century and the early 18th century\, artists working in the Netherla nds—then known as the Dutch Republic—produced an extraordinary number of la ndscape drawings. Many of these works depicted sites that were either recog nizable as or evocative of the country’s cities\, villages\, and countrysid e. This profusion of local imagery coincided with the young country’s quest for global dominion\, as well as with war and dramatic ecological change a t home. As notions of Dutch “territory” shifted\, artists engaged with the world by drawing outside\, from direct observation—a practice repeatedly en couraged in the art theory of the period. Once back in the studio\, they co uld produce finished drawings and works in other media\, adapting observed motifs or fusing them into altered or imagined views. In so doing\, they co nstructed a selective vision of the Dutch landscape that by turns depicted\ , hinted at\, or ignored the changes occurring around them. DTEND:20220719T210000Z DTSTAMP:20260413T054313Z DTSTART:20220719T140000Z LOCATION:Harvard Art Museums SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Crossroads: Drawing the Dutch Landscape UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_39862747357631 URL:https://calendar.college.harvard.edu/event/crossroads_drawing_the_dutch _landscape END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Towns\, farms\, waterways\, and woods—discover how Rembrandt\, Van Goyen\, Van Ruisdael\, and more approached these subjects as meditation s on humankind’s relationship with the environment.\n\n \n\nBetween the lat e 16th century and the early 18th century\, artists working in the Netherla nds—then known as the Dutch Republic—produced an extraordinary number of la ndscape drawings. Many of these works depicted sites that were either recog nizable as or evocative of the country’s cities\, villages\, and countrysid e. This profusion of local imagery coincided with the young country’s quest for global dominion\, as well as with war and dramatic ecological change a t home. As notions of Dutch “territory” shifted\, artists engaged with the world by drawing outside\, from direct observation—a practice repeatedly en couraged in the art theory of the period. Once back in the studio\, they co uld produce finished drawings and works in other media\, adapting observed motifs or fusing them into altered or imagined views. In so doing\, they co nstructed a selective vision of the Dutch landscape that by turns depicted\ , hinted at\, or ignored the changes occurring around them. DTEND:20220720T210000Z DTSTAMP:20260413T054313Z DTSTART:20220720T140000Z LOCATION:Harvard Art Museums SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Crossroads: Drawing the Dutch Landscape UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_39862747358656 URL:https://calendar.college.harvard.edu/event/crossroads_drawing_the_dutch _landscape END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Towns\, farms\, waterways\, and woods—discover how Rembrandt\, Van Goyen\, Van Ruisdael\, and more approached these subjects as meditation s on humankind’s relationship with the environment.\n\n \n\nBetween the lat e 16th century and the early 18th century\, artists working in the Netherla nds—then known as the Dutch Republic—produced an extraordinary number of la ndscape drawings. Many of these works depicted sites that were either recog nizable as or evocative of the country’s cities\, villages\, and countrysid e. This profusion of local imagery coincided with the young country’s quest for global dominion\, as well as with war and dramatic ecological change a t home. As notions of Dutch “territory” shifted\, artists engaged with the world by drawing outside\, from direct observation—a practice repeatedly en couraged in the art theory of the period. Once back in the studio\, they co uld produce finished drawings and works in other media\, adapting observed motifs or fusing them into altered or imagined views. In so doing\, they co nstructed a selective vision of the Dutch landscape that by turns depicted\ , hinted at\, or ignored the changes occurring around them. DTEND:20220721T210000Z DTSTAMP:20260413T054313Z DTSTART:20220721T140000Z LOCATION:Harvard Art Museums SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Crossroads: Drawing the Dutch Landscape UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_39862747361729 URL:https://calendar.college.harvard.edu/event/crossroads_drawing_the_dutch _landscape END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Towns\, farms\, waterways\, and woods—discover how Rembrandt\, Van Goyen\, Van Ruisdael\, and more approached these subjects as meditation s on humankind’s relationship with the environment.\n\n \n\nBetween the lat e 16th century and the early 18th century\, artists working in the Netherla nds—then known as the Dutch Republic—produced an extraordinary number of la ndscape drawings. Many of these works depicted sites that were either recog nizable as or evocative of the country’s cities\, villages\, and countrysid e. This profusion of local imagery coincided with the young country’s quest for global dominion\, as well as with war and dramatic ecological change a t home. As notions of Dutch “territory” shifted\, artists engaged with the world by drawing outside\, from direct observation—a practice repeatedly en couraged in the art theory of the period. Once back in the studio\, they co uld produce finished drawings and works in other media\, adapting observed motifs or fusing them into altered or imagined views. In so doing\, they co nstructed a selective vision of the Dutch landscape that by turns depicted\ , hinted at\, or ignored the changes occurring around them. DTEND:20220722T210000Z DTSTAMP:20260413T054313Z DTSTART:20220722T140000Z LOCATION:Harvard Art Museums SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Crossroads: Drawing the Dutch Landscape UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_39862747362754 URL:https://calendar.college.harvard.edu/event/crossroads_drawing_the_dutch _landscape END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Towns\, farms\, waterways\, and woods—discover how Rembrandt\, Van Goyen\, Van Ruisdael\, and more approached these subjects as meditation s on humankind’s relationship with the environment.\n\n \n\nBetween the lat e 16th century and the early 18th century\, artists working in the Netherla nds—then known as the Dutch Republic—produced an extraordinary number of la ndscape drawings. Many of these works depicted sites that were either recog nizable as or evocative of the country’s cities\, villages\, and countrysid e. This profusion of local imagery coincided with the young country’s quest for global dominion\, as well as with war and dramatic ecological change a t home. As notions of Dutch “territory” shifted\, artists engaged with the world by drawing outside\, from direct observation—a practice repeatedly en couraged in the art theory of the period. Once back in the studio\, they co uld produce finished drawings and works in other media\, adapting observed motifs or fusing them into altered or imagined views. In so doing\, they co nstructed a selective vision of the Dutch landscape that by turns depicted\ , hinted at\, or ignored the changes occurring around them. DTEND:20220723T210000Z DTSTAMP:20260413T054313Z DTSTART:20220723T140000Z LOCATION:Harvard Art Museums SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Crossroads: Drawing the Dutch Landscape UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_39862747364803 URL:https://calendar.college.harvard.edu/event/crossroads_drawing_the_dutch _landscape END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Towns\, farms\, waterways\, and woods—discover how Rembrandt\, Van Goyen\, Van Ruisdael\, and more approached these subjects as meditation s on humankind’s relationship with the environment.\n\n \n\nBetween the lat e 16th century and the early 18th century\, artists working in the Netherla nds—then known as the Dutch Republic—produced an extraordinary number of la ndscape drawings. Many of these works depicted sites that were either recog nizable as or evocative of the country’s cities\, villages\, and countrysid e. This profusion of local imagery coincided with the young country’s quest for global dominion\, as well as with war and dramatic ecological change a t home. As notions of Dutch “territory” shifted\, artists engaged with the world by drawing outside\, from direct observation—a practice repeatedly en couraged in the art theory of the period. Once back in the studio\, they co uld produce finished drawings and works in other media\, adapting observed motifs or fusing them into altered or imagined views. In so doing\, they co nstructed a selective vision of the Dutch landscape that by turns depicted\ , hinted at\, or ignored the changes occurring around them. DTEND:20220724T210000Z DTSTAMP:20260413T054313Z DTSTART:20220724T140000Z LOCATION:Harvard Art Museums SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Crossroads: Drawing the Dutch Landscape UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_39862747365828 URL:https://calendar.college.harvard.edu/event/crossroads_drawing_the_dutch _landscape END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Towns\, farms\, waterways\, and woods—discover how Rembrandt\, Van Goyen\, Van Ruisdael\, and more approached these subjects as meditation s on humankind’s relationship with the environment.\n\n \n\nBetween the lat e 16th century and the early 18th century\, artists working in the Netherla nds—then known as the Dutch Republic—produced an extraordinary number of la ndscape drawings. Many of these works depicted sites that were either recog nizable as or evocative of the country’s cities\, villages\, and countrysid e. This profusion of local imagery coincided with the young country’s quest for global dominion\, as well as with war and dramatic ecological change a t home. As notions of Dutch “territory” shifted\, artists engaged with the world by drawing outside\, from direct observation—a practice repeatedly en couraged in the art theory of the period. Once back in the studio\, they co uld produce finished drawings and works in other media\, adapting observed motifs or fusing them into altered or imagined views. In so doing\, they co nstructed a selective vision of the Dutch landscape that by turns depicted\ , hinted at\, or ignored the changes occurring around them. DTEND:20220726T210000Z DTSTAMP:20260413T054313Z DTSTART:20220726T140000Z LOCATION:Harvard Art Museums SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Crossroads: Drawing the Dutch Landscape UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_39862747367877 URL:https://calendar.college.harvard.edu/event/crossroads_drawing_the_dutch _landscape END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Towns\, farms\, waterways\, and woods—discover how Rembrandt\, Van Goyen\, Van Ruisdael\, and more approached these subjects as meditation s on humankind’s relationship with the environment.\n\n \n\nBetween the lat e 16th century and the early 18th century\, artists working in the Netherla nds—then known as the Dutch Republic—produced an extraordinary number of la ndscape drawings. Many of these works depicted sites that were either recog nizable as or evocative of the country’s cities\, villages\, and countrysid e. This profusion of local imagery coincided with the young country’s quest for global dominion\, as well as with war and dramatic ecological change a t home. As notions of Dutch “territory” shifted\, artists engaged with the world by drawing outside\, from direct observation—a practice repeatedly en couraged in the art theory of the period. Once back in the studio\, they co uld produce finished drawings and works in other media\, adapting observed motifs or fusing them into altered or imagined views. In so doing\, they co nstructed a selective vision of the Dutch landscape that by turns depicted\ , hinted at\, or ignored the changes occurring around them. DTEND:20220727T210000Z DTSTAMP:20260413T054313Z DTSTART:20220727T140000Z LOCATION:Harvard Art Museums SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Crossroads: Drawing the Dutch Landscape UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_39862747369926 URL:https://calendar.college.harvard.edu/event/crossroads_drawing_the_dutch _landscape END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Towns\, farms\, waterways\, and woods—discover how Rembrandt\, Van Goyen\, Van Ruisdael\, and more approached these subjects as meditation s on humankind’s relationship with the environment.\n\n \n\nBetween the lat e 16th century and the early 18th century\, artists working in the Netherla nds—then known as the Dutch Republic—produced an extraordinary number of la ndscape drawings. Many of these works depicted sites that were either recog nizable as or evocative of the country’s cities\, villages\, and countrysid e. This profusion of local imagery coincided with the young country’s quest for global dominion\, as well as with war and dramatic ecological change a t home. As notions of Dutch “territory” shifted\, artists engaged with the world by drawing outside\, from direct observation—a practice repeatedly en couraged in the art theory of the period. Once back in the studio\, they co uld produce finished drawings and works in other media\, adapting observed motifs or fusing them into altered or imagined views. In so doing\, they co nstructed a selective vision of the Dutch landscape that by turns depicted\ , hinted at\, or ignored the changes occurring around them. DTEND:20220728T210000Z DTSTAMP:20260413T054313Z DTSTART:20220728T140000Z LOCATION:Harvard Art Museums SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Crossroads: Drawing the Dutch Landscape UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_39862747371975 URL:https://calendar.college.harvard.edu/event/crossroads_drawing_the_dutch _landscape END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Towns\, farms\, waterways\, and woods—discover how Rembrandt\, Van Goyen\, Van Ruisdael\, and more approached these subjects as meditation s on humankind’s relationship with the environment.\n\n \n\nBetween the lat e 16th century and the early 18th century\, artists working in the Netherla nds—then known as the Dutch Republic—produced an extraordinary number of la ndscape drawings. Many of these works depicted sites that were either recog nizable as or evocative of the country’s cities\, villages\, and countrysid e. This profusion of local imagery coincided with the young country’s quest for global dominion\, as well as with war and dramatic ecological change a t home. As notions of Dutch “territory” shifted\, artists engaged with the world by drawing outside\, from direct observation—a practice repeatedly en couraged in the art theory of the period. Once back in the studio\, they co uld produce finished drawings and works in other media\, adapting observed motifs or fusing them into altered or imagined views. In so doing\, they co nstructed a selective vision of the Dutch landscape that by turns depicted\ , hinted at\, or ignored the changes occurring around them. DTEND:20220729T210000Z DTSTAMP:20260413T054313Z DTSTART:20220729T140000Z LOCATION:Harvard Art Museums SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Crossroads: Drawing the Dutch Landscape UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_39862747373000 URL:https://calendar.college.harvard.edu/event/crossroads_drawing_the_dutch _landscape END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Towns\, farms\, waterways\, and woods—discover how Rembrandt\, Van Goyen\, Van Ruisdael\, and more approached these subjects as meditation s on humankind’s relationship with the environment.\n\n \n\nBetween the lat e 16th century and the early 18th century\, artists working in the Netherla nds—then known as the Dutch Republic—produced an extraordinary number of la ndscape drawings. Many of these works depicted sites that were either recog nizable as or evocative of the country’s cities\, villages\, and countrysid e. This profusion of local imagery coincided with the young country’s quest for global dominion\, as well as with war and dramatic ecological change a t home. As notions of Dutch “territory” shifted\, artists engaged with the world by drawing outside\, from direct observation—a practice repeatedly en couraged in the art theory of the period. Once back in the studio\, they co uld produce finished drawings and works in other media\, adapting observed motifs or fusing them into altered or imagined views. In so doing\, they co nstructed a selective vision of the Dutch landscape that by turns depicted\ , hinted at\, or ignored the changes occurring around them. DTEND:20220730T210000Z DTSTAMP:20260413T054313Z DTSTART:20220730T140000Z LOCATION:Harvard Art Museums SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Crossroads: Drawing the Dutch Landscape UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_39862747376073 URL:https://calendar.college.harvard.edu/event/crossroads_drawing_the_dutch _landscape END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Towns\, farms\, waterways\, and woods—discover how Rembrandt\, Van Goyen\, Van Ruisdael\, and more approached these subjects as meditation s on humankind’s relationship with the environment.\n\n \n\nBetween the lat e 16th century and the early 18th century\, artists working in the Netherla nds—then known as the Dutch Republic—produced an extraordinary number of la ndscape drawings. Many of these works depicted sites that were either recog nizable as or evocative of the country’s cities\, villages\, and countrysid e. This profusion of local imagery coincided with the young country’s quest for global dominion\, as well as with war and dramatic ecological change a t home. As notions of Dutch “territory” shifted\, artists engaged with the world by drawing outside\, from direct observation—a practice repeatedly en couraged in the art theory of the period. Once back in the studio\, they co uld produce finished drawings and works in other media\, adapting observed motifs or fusing them into altered or imagined views. In so doing\, they co nstructed a selective vision of the Dutch landscape that by turns depicted\ , hinted at\, or ignored the changes occurring around them. DTEND:20220731T210000Z DTSTAMP:20260413T054313Z DTSTART:20220731T140000Z LOCATION:Harvard Art Museums SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Crossroads: Drawing the Dutch Landscape UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_39862747377098 URL:https://calendar.college.harvard.edu/event/crossroads_drawing_the_dutch _landscape END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Towns\, farms\, waterways\, and woods—discover how Rembrandt\, Van Goyen\, Van Ruisdael\, and more approached these subjects as meditation s on humankind’s relationship with the environment.\n\n \n\nBetween the lat e 16th century and the early 18th century\, artists working in the Netherla nds—then known as the Dutch Republic—produced an extraordinary number of la ndscape drawings. Many of these works depicted sites that were either recog nizable as or evocative of the country’s cities\, villages\, and countrysid e. This profusion of local imagery coincided with the young country’s quest for global dominion\, as well as with war and dramatic ecological change a t home. As notions of Dutch “territory” shifted\, artists engaged with the world by drawing outside\, from direct observation—a practice repeatedly en couraged in the art theory of the period. Once back in the studio\, they co uld produce finished drawings and works in other media\, adapting observed motifs or fusing them into altered or imagined views. In so doing\, they co nstructed a selective vision of the Dutch landscape that by turns depicted\ , hinted at\, or ignored the changes occurring around them. DTEND:20220802T210000Z DTSTAMP:20260413T054313Z DTSTART:20220802T140000Z LOCATION:Harvard Art Museums SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Crossroads: Drawing the Dutch Landscape UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_39862747379147 URL:https://calendar.college.harvard.edu/event/crossroads_drawing_the_dutch _landscape END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Towns\, farms\, waterways\, and woods—discover how Rembrandt\, Van Goyen\, Van Ruisdael\, and more approached these subjects as meditation s on humankind’s relationship with the environment.\n\n \n\nBetween the lat e 16th century and the early 18th century\, artists working in the Netherla nds—then known as the Dutch Republic—produced an extraordinary number of la ndscape drawings. Many of these works depicted sites that were either recog nizable as or evocative of the country’s cities\, villages\, and countrysid e. This profusion of local imagery coincided with the young country’s quest for global dominion\, as well as with war and dramatic ecological change a t home. As notions of Dutch “territory” shifted\, artists engaged with the world by drawing outside\, from direct observation—a practice repeatedly en couraged in the art theory of the period. Once back in the studio\, they co uld produce finished drawings and works in other media\, adapting observed motifs or fusing them into altered or imagined views. In so doing\, they co nstructed a selective vision of the Dutch landscape that by turns depicted\ , hinted at\, or ignored the changes occurring around them. DTEND:20220803T210000Z DTSTAMP:20260413T054313Z DTSTART:20220803T140000Z LOCATION:Harvard Art Museums SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Crossroads: Drawing the Dutch Landscape UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_39862747380172 URL:https://calendar.college.harvard.edu/event/crossroads_drawing_the_dutch _landscape END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Towns\, farms\, waterways\, and woods—discover how Rembrandt\, Van Goyen\, Van Ruisdael\, and more approached these subjects as meditation s on humankind’s relationship with the environment.\n\n \n\nBetween the lat e 16th century and the early 18th century\, artists working in the Netherla nds—then known as the Dutch Republic—produced an extraordinary number of la ndscape drawings. Many of these works depicted sites that were either recog nizable as or evocative of the country’s cities\, villages\, and countrysid e. This profusion of local imagery coincided with the young country’s quest for global dominion\, as well as with war and dramatic ecological change a t home. As notions of Dutch “territory” shifted\, artists engaged with the world by drawing outside\, from direct observation—a practice repeatedly en couraged in the art theory of the period. Once back in the studio\, they co uld produce finished drawings and works in other media\, adapting observed motifs or fusing them into altered or imagined views. In so doing\, they co nstructed a selective vision of the Dutch landscape that by turns depicted\ , hinted at\, or ignored the changes occurring around them. DTEND:20220804T210000Z DTSTAMP:20260413T054313Z DTSTART:20220804T140000Z LOCATION:Harvard Art Museums SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Crossroads: Drawing the Dutch Landscape UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_39862747382221 URL:https://calendar.college.harvard.edu/event/crossroads_drawing_the_dutch _landscape END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Towns\, farms\, waterways\, and woods—discover how Rembrandt\, Van Goyen\, Van Ruisdael\, and more approached these subjects as meditation s on humankind’s relationship with the environment.\n\n \n\nBetween the lat e 16th century and the early 18th century\, artists working in the Netherla nds—then known as the Dutch Republic—produced an extraordinary number of la ndscape drawings. Many of these works depicted sites that were either recog nizable as or evocative of the country’s cities\, villages\, and countrysid e. This profusion of local imagery coincided with the young country’s quest for global dominion\, as well as with war and dramatic ecological change a t home. As notions of Dutch “territory” shifted\, artists engaged with the world by drawing outside\, from direct observation—a practice repeatedly en couraged in the art theory of the period. Once back in the studio\, they co uld produce finished drawings and works in other media\, adapting observed motifs or fusing them into altered or imagined views. In so doing\, they co nstructed a selective vision of the Dutch landscape that by turns depicted\ , hinted at\, or ignored the changes occurring around them. DTEND:20220805T210000Z DTSTAMP:20260413T054313Z DTSTART:20220805T140000Z LOCATION:Harvard Art Museums SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Crossroads: Drawing the Dutch Landscape UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_39862747383246 URL:https://calendar.college.harvard.edu/event/crossroads_drawing_the_dutch _landscape END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Towns\, farms\, waterways\, and woods—discover how Rembrandt\, Van Goyen\, Van Ruisdael\, and more approached these subjects as meditation s on humankind’s relationship with the environment.\n\n \n\nBetween the lat e 16th century and the early 18th century\, artists working in the Netherla nds—then known as the Dutch Republic—produced an extraordinary number of la ndscape drawings. Many of these works depicted sites that were either recog nizable as or evocative of the country’s cities\, villages\, and countrysid e. This profusion of local imagery coincided with the young country’s quest for global dominion\, as well as with war and dramatic ecological change a t home. As notions of Dutch “territory” shifted\, artists engaged with the world by drawing outside\, from direct observation—a practice repeatedly en couraged in the art theory of the period. Once back in the studio\, they co uld produce finished drawings and works in other media\, adapting observed motifs or fusing them into altered or imagined views. In so doing\, they co nstructed a selective vision of the Dutch landscape that by turns depicted\ , hinted at\, or ignored the changes occurring around them. DTEND:20220806T210000Z DTSTAMP:20260413T054313Z DTSTART:20220806T140000Z LOCATION:Harvard Art Museums SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Crossroads: Drawing the Dutch Landscape UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_39862747385295 URL:https://calendar.college.harvard.edu/event/crossroads_drawing_the_dutch _landscape END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Towns\, farms\, waterways\, and woods—discover how Rembrandt\, Van Goyen\, Van Ruisdael\, and more approached these subjects as meditation s on humankind’s relationship with the environment.\n\n \n\nBetween the lat e 16th century and the early 18th century\, artists working in the Netherla nds—then known as the Dutch Republic—produced an extraordinary number of la ndscape drawings. Many of these works depicted sites that were either recog nizable as or evocative of the country’s cities\, villages\, and countrysid e. This profusion of local imagery coincided with the young country’s quest for global dominion\, as well as with war and dramatic ecological change a t home. As notions of Dutch “territory” shifted\, artists engaged with the world by drawing outside\, from direct observation—a practice repeatedly en couraged in the art theory of the period. Once back in the studio\, they co uld produce finished drawings and works in other media\, adapting observed motifs or fusing them into altered or imagined views. In so doing\, they co nstructed a selective vision of the Dutch landscape that by turns depicted\ , hinted at\, or ignored the changes occurring around them. DTEND:20220807T210000Z DTSTAMP:20260413T054313Z DTSTART:20220807T140000Z LOCATION:Harvard Art Museums SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Crossroads: Drawing the Dutch Landscape UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_39862747387344 URL:https://calendar.college.harvard.edu/event/crossroads_drawing_the_dutch _landscape END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Towns\, farms\, waterways\, and woods—discover how Rembrandt\, Van Goyen\, Van Ruisdael\, and more approached these subjects as meditation s on humankind’s relationship with the environment.\n\n \n\nBetween the lat e 16th century and the early 18th century\, artists working in the Netherla nds—then known as the Dutch Republic—produced an extraordinary number of la ndscape drawings. Many of these works depicted sites that were either recog nizable as or evocative of the country’s cities\, villages\, and countrysid e. This profusion of local imagery coincided with the young country’s quest for global dominion\, as well as with war and dramatic ecological change a t home. As notions of Dutch “territory” shifted\, artists engaged with the world by drawing outside\, from direct observation—a practice repeatedly en couraged in the art theory of the period. Once back in the studio\, they co uld produce finished drawings and works in other media\, adapting observed motifs or fusing them into altered or imagined views. In so doing\, they co nstructed a selective vision of the Dutch landscape that by turns depicted\ , hinted at\, or ignored the changes occurring around them. DTEND:20220809T210000Z DTSTAMP:20260413T054313Z DTSTART:20220809T140000Z LOCATION:Harvard Art Museums SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Crossroads: Drawing the Dutch Landscape UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_39862747388369 URL:https://calendar.college.harvard.edu/event/crossroads_drawing_the_dutch _landscape END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Towns\, farms\, waterways\, and woods—discover how Rembrandt\, Van Goyen\, Van Ruisdael\, and more approached these subjects as meditation s on humankind’s relationship with the environment.\n\n \n\nBetween the lat e 16th century and the early 18th century\, artists working in the Netherla nds—then known as the Dutch Republic—produced an extraordinary number of la ndscape drawings. Many of these works depicted sites that were either recog nizable as or evocative of the country’s cities\, villages\, and countrysid e. This profusion of local imagery coincided with the young country’s quest for global dominion\, as well as with war and dramatic ecological change a t home. As notions of Dutch “territory” shifted\, artists engaged with the world by drawing outside\, from direct observation—a practice repeatedly en couraged in the art theory of the period. Once back in the studio\, they co uld produce finished drawings and works in other media\, adapting observed motifs or fusing them into altered or imagined views. In so doing\, they co nstructed a selective vision of the Dutch landscape that by turns depicted\ , hinted at\, or ignored the changes occurring around them. DTEND:20220810T210000Z DTSTAMP:20260413T054313Z DTSTART:20220810T140000Z LOCATION:Harvard Art Museums SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Crossroads: Drawing the Dutch Landscape UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_39862747390418 URL:https://calendar.college.harvard.edu/event/crossroads_drawing_the_dutch _landscape END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Towns\, farms\, waterways\, and woods—discover how Rembrandt\, Van Goyen\, Van Ruisdael\, and more approached these subjects as meditation s on humankind’s relationship with the environment.\n\n \n\nBetween the lat e 16th century and the early 18th century\, artists working in the Netherla nds—then known as the Dutch Republic—produced an extraordinary number of la ndscape drawings. Many of these works depicted sites that were either recog nizable as or evocative of the country’s cities\, villages\, and countrysid e. This profusion of local imagery coincided with the young country’s quest for global dominion\, as well as with war and dramatic ecological change a t home. As notions of Dutch “territory” shifted\, artists engaged with the world by drawing outside\, from direct observation—a practice repeatedly en couraged in the art theory of the period. Once back in the studio\, they co uld produce finished drawings and works in other media\, adapting observed motifs or fusing them into altered or imagined views. In so doing\, they co nstructed a selective vision of the Dutch landscape that by turns depicted\ , hinted at\, or ignored the changes occurring around them. DTEND:20220811T210000Z DTSTAMP:20260413T054313Z DTSTART:20220811T140000Z LOCATION:Harvard Art Museums SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Crossroads: Drawing the Dutch Landscape UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_39862747393491 URL:https://calendar.college.harvard.edu/event/crossroads_drawing_the_dutch _landscape END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Towns\, farms\, waterways\, and woods—discover how Rembrandt\, Van Goyen\, Van Ruisdael\, and more approached these subjects as meditation s on humankind’s relationship with the environment.\n\n \n\nBetween the lat e 16th century and the early 18th century\, artists working in the Netherla nds—then known as the Dutch Republic—produced an extraordinary number of la ndscape drawings. Many of these works depicted sites that were either recog nizable as or evocative of the country’s cities\, villages\, and countrysid e. This profusion of local imagery coincided with the young country’s quest for global dominion\, as well as with war and dramatic ecological change a t home. As notions of Dutch “territory” shifted\, artists engaged with the world by drawing outside\, from direct observation—a practice repeatedly en couraged in the art theory of the period. Once back in the studio\, they co uld produce finished drawings and works in other media\, adapting observed motifs or fusing them into altered or imagined views. In so doing\, they co nstructed a selective vision of the Dutch landscape that by turns depicted\ , hinted at\, or ignored the changes occurring around them. DTEND:20220812T210000Z DTSTAMP:20260413T054313Z DTSTART:20220812T140000Z LOCATION:Harvard Art Museums SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Crossroads: Drawing the Dutch Landscape UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_39862747395540 URL:https://calendar.college.harvard.edu/event/crossroads_drawing_the_dutch _landscape END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Towns\, farms\, waterways\, and woods—discover how Rembrandt\, Van Goyen\, Van Ruisdael\, and more approached these subjects as meditation s on humankind’s relationship with the environment.\n\n \n\nBetween the lat e 16th century and the early 18th century\, artists working in the Netherla nds—then known as the Dutch Republic—produced an extraordinary number of la ndscape drawings. Many of these works depicted sites that were either recog nizable as or evocative of the country’s cities\, villages\, and countrysid e. This profusion of local imagery coincided with the young country’s quest for global dominion\, as well as with war and dramatic ecological change a t home. As notions of Dutch “territory” shifted\, artists engaged with the world by drawing outside\, from direct observation—a practice repeatedly en couraged in the art theory of the period. Once back in the studio\, they co uld produce finished drawings and works in other media\, adapting observed motifs or fusing them into altered or imagined views. In so doing\, they co nstructed a selective vision of the Dutch landscape that by turns depicted\ , hinted at\, or ignored the changes occurring around them. DTEND:20220813T210000Z DTSTAMP:20260413T054313Z DTSTART:20220813T140000Z LOCATION:Harvard Art Museums SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Crossroads: Drawing the Dutch Landscape UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_39862747396565 URL:https://calendar.college.harvard.edu/event/crossroads_drawing_the_dutch _landscape END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Towns\, farms\, waterways\, and woods—discover how Rembrandt\, Van Goyen\, Van Ruisdael\, and more approached these subjects as meditation s on humankind’s relationship with the environment.\n\n \n\nBetween the lat e 16th century and the early 18th century\, artists working in the Netherla nds—then known as the Dutch Republic—produced an extraordinary number of la ndscape drawings. Many of these works depicted sites that were either recog nizable as or evocative of the country’s cities\, villages\, and countrysid e. This profusion of local imagery coincided with the young country’s quest for global dominion\, as well as with war and dramatic ecological change a t home. As notions of Dutch “territory” shifted\, artists engaged with the world by drawing outside\, from direct observation—a practice repeatedly en couraged in the art theory of the period. Once back in the studio\, they co uld produce finished drawings and works in other media\, adapting observed motifs or fusing them into altered or imagined views. In so doing\, they co nstructed a selective vision of the Dutch landscape that by turns depicted\ , hinted at\, or ignored the changes occurring around them. DTEND:20220814T210000Z DTSTAMP:20260413T054313Z DTSTART:20220814T140000Z LOCATION:Harvard Art Museums SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Crossroads: Drawing the Dutch Landscape UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_39862747398614 URL:https://calendar.college.harvard.edu/event/crossroads_drawing_the_dutch _landscape END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR