Thursday, August 27, 2015

A View On A High Road

This is what road conditions were like in Europe from the fall of Rome until the 19th century.  The painting is A View On A High Road by Meindert Hobbema (1638-1709), a Dutch landscape painter a pupil of the better-known Jacob van Ruisdael.  High Road was the term for a major thoroughfare.  Macadam and asphalt were a really big deal when they were introduced a couple of centuries later (see Forgotten Americans: Jacob de Smedt & Nathan B Abbott).

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f0/A_View_on_a_High_Road-1665-Meindert_Hobbema.jpg

1 comment:

  1. Like the art. That reminds me, our country driveway needs attention! dm

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