The Jewish Cemetery

Painting · c. 1655 · Amsterdam · Europe

A landscape allegory of transience with ruins and a rainbow; Goethe praised it as poetic landscape

Author: Jacob van Ruisdael
Style: Dutch Golden Age Painting — Painting for the burgher's parlour: portrait, landscape, still life and genre instead of altarpieces
Century: 17th century

Made around the same time (±30 years)

1642 The Night Watch — Rembrandt · Dutch Golden Age Painting · Amsterdam
1632–1653 Taj Mahal — Ustad Ahmad Lahauri · Mughal Art · Agra
1656 Las Meninas — Diego Velázquez · Baroque · Madrid
1656–1667 St. Peter's Square — Gian Lorenzo Bernini · Baroque · Vatican, Rome
c. 1658 The Milkmaid — Johannes Vermeer · Dutch Golden Age Painting · Delft
c. 1661–1710 Palace of Versailles — Louis Le Vau, Jules Hardouin-Mansart, André Le Nôtre · Baroque · Versailles
1647–1652 Ecstasy of Saint Teresa — Gian Lorenzo Bernini · Baroque · Rome, Santa Maria della Vittoria
1664 Tartuffe — Molière · Versailles