Extensive Landscape with View of the Castle of Mariemont (Primary Title)

Jan Brueghel, the Elder, Flemish, 1568 - 1625 (Artist)

Educational
1609-11
Flemish
oil on canvas
Unframed: 33 3/8 × 51 1/2 in. (84.77 × 130.81 cm)
Framed: 44 1/4 × 61 7/8 in. (112.4 × 157.16 cm)
53.10
Adolph D. and Wilkins C. Williams Fund
Galilei, Galileo; Giulio Scarpati, Alessandro Bettini; Vincenzo Galilei; Michelangelo Galilei. Io Dico L’Universo: Letture Galileiane. Bologna: Societa Italiana di Fisica, 2014. DVD.

Louwman, P.J.K. and H.J. Zuidervaart. A Certain Instrument for Seeing Far: four centuries of styling the telescope: illustrated by a selection of treasures from the Louwman Collection of Historic Telescopes. Wassenaar: Louwman Collection of Historic Telescopes, 2013. Color ill., pp. 20; pp. 27 color ill., detail.

Bucciantini, Massimo, Michele Camerota, and Franco Giudice. Galileo’s Telescope: A European Story. Trans. Catherine Bolton. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2015.

Paolo Molaro and Pierluigi Selvelli, “On the Telescopes in the Paintings of Jan Breughel the Elder,” The Role of Astronomy in Society and Culture Proceedings (International Astronomical Union, 2009) pp. 10-11, symposium no. 260.

Pierluigi Selvelli and Paolo Molaro, On the Telescopes in the Paintings of J. Breughel the Elder cdrom in association with 400 Years of Astronomical Telescopes (New York: Springer Publishing, 2010) color det. fig. 1.

Marina Sviderskaya, “Concepts of Time, Space, and Motion in Early Modern Art, Science and Philosophy,” The World of 1607 ex. cat. (Williamsburg: Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation, 2007) color ill. p. 114.

Arianne Faber Kolb, Jan Brueghel the Elder The Entry of the Animals into Noah's Ark (Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2005), p. 68, color fig. 67, p. 69.

Sven Dupré, The Optica of Galileo Galilei (Brussels: Koninklijke Vlaamse Adademie van België voor Wetenschappen en Kunsten, 2001) color ill. cover.

Breughel – Brueghel: Pieter Brueghel the Younger (1564-1637/8) and Jan Brueghel the Elder (1568-1625) a Flemish Family of Painters around 1600 exhibition catalogue (Essen: Kulturstiftung Ruhr & Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, 1997) pp. 252-253, cat. no. 72, color ill. p. 253.

Albert van Helden, Sven Dupré, Rob van Gent, Huib Zuidervaart, (The Netherlands: Den Haag in asso. with KNAW (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences), color ills. 4, p. 17, & 2, p.171, Overall view and 1 detail

Sara Bonechi, Mi fan patir costoro il grande stento Itinerario intellettuale e biografico di Galileo (Florence: Museo Galileo, 2012) Color ill. pp. 52-53
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