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| Keywords: Pieter Stevens II - Mountain Valley with Inn and Castle.jpg Artwork creator Pieter Stevens II 1593 Oil oak cm 45 5 67 Institution Staatliche Museen Kassel object history credit line This is the earliest known work of Pieter Stevens II It is of extremely fine execution and was possibly the work he made to support his application to work at the Imperial court Through the innovative feature of the complete absence of a view into the distance this painting heralds the idyllic close-up landscape of the 17th century His contemporaries would probably have been more aware of the uncanniness of the sealed off swampy valley with its ruinous castle decaying inn and invalid wayfarers They would have understood these details as symbols of the wickedness of the world the pride of the powerful and the licentiousness of the lowly who are punished accession number http //altemeister museum-kassel de/33861/0/0/147/s1/0/0/objekt html PD-old-100 Pieter Stevens II Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel 1593 paintings | ||||
