‘Verscheurende Beyren’
This article examines the depiction of polar bears in Dutch painting and graphics from the late 16th to the early 18th centuries. Reports of the first encounters between Dutch humans and polar bears established the idea of these animals as aggressive predators. This idea dominated the image of the b...
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crbrillap:10.1163/22145966-07101005 2023-05-15T14:51:32+02:00 ‘Verscheurende Beyren’ Fighting polar bears in early modern Netherlandish art Bauernfeind, Robert 2022 http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22145966-07101005 https://brill.com/view/journals/nkjo/71/1/article-p92_5.xml https://brill.com/downloadpdf/journals/nkjo/71/1/article-p92_5.xml unknown Brill Netherlands Yearbook for History of Art / Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek Online volume 71, issue 1, page 92-115 ISSN 2214-5966 Visual Arts and Performing Arts journal-article 2022 crbrillap https://doi.org/10.1163/22145966-07101005 2022-12-11T12:46:44Z This article examines the depiction of polar bears in Dutch painting and graphics from the late 16th to the early 18th centuries. Reports of the first encounters between Dutch humans and polar bears established the idea of these animals as aggressive predators. This idea dominated the image of the bear in illustrated travelogues as well as in allegorical depictions of the Arctic and whaling pictures. The polar bear thus became a symbol for the dangers of the region and appears as an obstacle to the human exploitation of the Arctic. However, depictions of the bloody hunt for polar bears indicate the economically motivated triumph of Europeans in this inhospitable area. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic polar bear Brill (via Crossref) Arctic Netherlands Yearbook for History of Art / Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek Online 71 1 92 115 |
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This article examines the depiction of polar bears in Dutch painting and graphics from the late 16th to the early 18th centuries. Reports of the first encounters between Dutch humans and polar bears established the idea of these animals as aggressive predators. This idea dominated the image of the bear in illustrated travelogues as well as in allegorical depictions of the Arctic and whaling pictures. The polar bear thus became a symbol for the dangers of the region and appears as an obstacle to the human exploitation of the Arctic. However, depictions of the bloody hunt for polar bears indicate the economically motivated triumph of Europeans in this inhospitable area. |
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