1589
tempera
canvas
From the collection of Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium
Dominant colour
Landschap (1577) is a 1589 tempera by Lucas van Valckenborch, a Northern Renaissance work, held at Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium.
This painting shows a landscape with a village in the background and people working in the foreground. There's a large tree on the left, and a windmill on a hill in the middle. The sky is cloudy. In the foreground, people are doing various tasks like chopping wood and carrying baskets. The colors are mostly greens and browns, with some blue in the sky. The painting is done in tempera, a technique that uses egg yolks to bind pigments. You can learn more about this technique by looking up tempera.
Lucas van Valckenborch or Lucas van Valckenborch the Elder (c. 1535 in Leuven – 2 February 1597 in Frankfurt am Main) was a Flemish painter, mainly known for his landscapes. He also made contributions to portrait…
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