Frans Post’s Brazil: Fractures in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Colonial Landscape Paintings

Abstract

The inter-relationship between the foreground of Frans Post’s landscape paintings, containing representations of Brazil’s fora and fauna, previously considered a decorative afterthought, and the middle/background, showing broader mapped terrains with sugar mills and slave labour, is explored. An argument is presented that shows that Post was attempting to negotiate between several different layers of meaning: namely, how to represent Holland as having succeeded in gaining colonial control over a foreign country while still indicating the dangers and instability of such an endeavour in an exotic and unforgiving terrain.

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