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Mountainous Landscape

c. 1633
Oil on canvas, 55 x 100 cm
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence

The landscapes by Seghers, of which "Mountainous Landscape" is a good example, continue the Mannerist tradition of his teacher Gillis van Coninxloo. There is a similar strong sense of the mysterious and bizarre grandeur of nature. The architecture of these landscapes, the clear logic of their organization and of the measured progression into a deep and ordered space, reveals a debt to contemporary realism; but Seghers was not satisfied with rendering what his eye perceived; he had grander visions of a nature more forbidding, more awe-inspiring - and these he painted, with his Dutch sensitivity to changing light and atmosphere.