Stilvolle Landschaft mit Schafhirten, in der Ferne eine Stadt by Jan van Huysum

Stilvolle Landschaft mit Schafhirten, in der Ferne eine Stadt 

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drawing, painting, watercolor

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drawing

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netherlandish

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baroque

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painting

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landscape

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figuration

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watercolor

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15_18th-century

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watercolor

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realism

Copyright: Public Domain

Jan van Huysum created this delicate landscape with watercolor, depicting shepherds and sheep against a distant city. The presence of sheep, symbols of innocence and pastoral simplicity, is a motif stretching back to antiquity. Consider the “Ecologues” of Virgil, where the shepherd’s life is idealized as a retreat from the complexities of civilization. This longing for a simpler existence finds visual form across time, resurfacing in the Arcadian landscapes of the Renaissance and Baroque periods. But the shepherd also carries a potent religious symbolism: Christ as the Good Shepherd, protector of his flock. The shepherd and his sheep tap into our collective memory, stirring a deep, almost subconscious yearning for peace and harmony with nature. Yet, even in this tranquil scene, we sense a certain melancholy. The distant city hints at a world beyond, a world of change and perhaps, disruption. The appeal of pastoral imagery is not simply an escape, but a cyclical return to foundational myths that continue to shape our desires and anxieties.

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