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A Winter Scene with Skaters near a Castle is an oil-on-oak painting undertaken between 1608 and 1609 by the Dutch artist Hendrick Avercamp. [1]As with a number of Avercamp's works, the picture is part of the Flemish tradition of painting "the harmony of human activity and the cycle of nature". [2]
Winter Landscape with a Bird Trap, also known as The Bird Trap, is a panel painting in oils by the Flemish painter Pieter Bruegel the Elder, from 1565, now in the Oldmasters Museum in Brussels. It shows a village scene where people skate on a frozen river, while on the right among trees and bushes, birds gather around a bird trap .
By the last quarter of the century, manuscripts of the Ghent–Bruges school often include a set, including two or three winter scenes for the coldest months, some with a snowy landscape. The snowy landscape as a genre in painting really begins in the 1560's with five paintings by Pieter Bruegel the Elder made between 1563 and perhaps 1567.
Hendrick Avercamp (January 27, 1585 (bapt.) – May 15, 1634 (buried)) was a Dutch painter during the Dutch Golden Age of painting.He was one of the earliest landscape painters of the 17th-century Dutch school, he specialized in painting the Netherlands in winter.
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