{"id":210,"date":"2020-07-19T00:59:57","date_gmt":"2020-07-19T00:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.science.smith.edu\/climatelit\/?page_id=210"},"modified":"2025-02-28T02:29:04","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T02:29:04","slug":"winter-landscape-paintings-by-dutch-and-english-masters","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.science.smith.edu\/climatelit\/winter-landscape-paintings-by-dutch-and-english-masters\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter Landscape Paintings by Dutch and English Masters"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_214\" style=\"width: 1925px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-214\" class=\"wp-image-214 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.science.smith.edu\/climatelit\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/97\/2020\/07\/winter-landscape-with-bird-trap-1565.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1915\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.science.smith.edu\/climatelit\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/97\/2020\/07\/winter-landscape-with-bird-trap-1565.jpg 1915w, https:\/\/www.science.smith.edu\/climatelit\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/97\/2020\/07\/winter-landscape-with-bird-trap-1565-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.science.smith.edu\/climatelit\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/97\/2020\/07\/winter-landscape-with-bird-trap-1565-1024x642.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.science.smith.edu\/climatelit\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/97\/2020\/07\/winter-landscape-with-bird-trap-1565-768x481.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.science.smith.edu\/climatelit\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/97\/2020\/07\/winter-landscape-with-bird-trap-1565-1536x963.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.science.smith.edu\/climatelit\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/97\/2020\/07\/winter-landscape-with-bird-trap-1565-624x391.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1915px) 100vw, 1915px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-214\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Winter Landscape with Skaters and Bird Trap (1565) by Pieter Brueghel the Elder, Mus\u00e9es Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium (from Web Gallery of Art).<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Paintings by the Dutch and English masters during the Little Ice Age (c. 1300-1850) commonly show people skating on canals, lakes, and rivers that regularly froze during the 14<sup>th<\/sup> through 19<sup>th<\/sup> centuries but do not freeze today. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Winter Landscape with Skaters and Bird Trap<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (shown above) is an example of one such painting. It depicts people skating on a canal in a Brabant village in the Netherlands.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This particular scene may be alluding to the winter of 1564-65, which, according to journals and chronicles from the time, was particularly severe.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>How is this related to climate?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The freezing of canals, lakes and rivers, many of which do not freeze today, that is depicted in these paintings was due to a drop in average global temperatures associated with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.smith.edu\/climatelit\/the-effects-of-the-little-ice-age\/\">Little Ice Age<\/a>. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>References and additional resources<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Prothero, D. R. and Dott, R. H. Evolution of the Earth (8th ed). New York, McGraw-Hill Education, 2010.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201c<i style=\"font-size: 1rem\">Winter Landscape with Skaters and Bird Trap<\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> by Bruegel, Pieter the Elder.\u201d <\/span><i style=\"font-size: 1rem\">Web Gallery of Art<\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. (n.d.).<\/span><a style=\"font-size: 1rem\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wga.hu\/html_m\/b\/bruegel\/pieter_e\/01\/13winter.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> https:\/\/www.wga.hu\/html_m\/b\/bruegel\/pieter_e\/01\/13winter.html<\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>How to cite this page<\/h3>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Winter Landscape Paintings by Dutch and English Masters<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. (2021, June 30). Climate in Global Cultures and Histories: Promoting Climate Literacy Across Disciplines. 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