Transcript Dutch winter landscapes from 1600s to early 21 st century

Climate Change in Art
(Class Discussion – Global Change)
Dutch winter landscapes from 1600s …
Hendrick Avercamp
A Scene on the Ice (c. 1625)
Dutch winter landscapes from 1600s …
Jacob van
Ruysdael
Winter
Landscape
(1670)
Dutch winter landscapes from 1600s …
Jacob van
Ruysdael
Village at
Winter at
Moonlight
…1800s …
Andreas
Schelfhout
Skaters on a
frozen
waterway
(1857)
… and early 21st century
(http://engr.calvin.edu/neth99/)
… and early 21st century
(http://engr.calvin.edu/neth99/)
Dutch winter landscapes from 1600s to early 21st century
Hendrick Avercamp
A Scene on the Ice (c. 1625)
(http://engr.calvin.edu/neth99/)
Dutch winter landscapes from 1600s to early 21st century:
What can we deduce from depictions of
the past?
Is a picture worth a thousand words?
Dutch winter landscapes from 1600s to early 21st century:
Discussion: What are issues to consider
when deducing climate information
from paintings?
Discussion: What might we deduce
from this set?
Other Dutch data from 1400s to 20th century:
Other Dutch data from 1400s to early 20th century:
(Days for which a canal frozen between Laarlem and Leiden, Holland)
Reconstructed winter temperature at De Bilt, Holland)
Climate Change in Art
(Class Discussion)
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