Climate Change in Art

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Climate Change in Art (Class Discussion
Global Change)
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Dutch winter landscapes from 1600s
Hendrick Avercamp A Scene on the Ice (c. 1625)
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Dutch winter landscapes from 1600s
Jacob van Ruysdael Winter Landscape (1670)
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Dutch winter landscapes from 1600s
Jacob van Ruysdael Village at Winter at Moonlight
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1800s
Andreas Schelfhout Skaters on a frozen
waterway (1857)
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and early 21st century
(http//engr.calvin.edu/neth99/)
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and early 21st century
(http//engr.calvin.edu/neth99/)
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Dutch winter landscapes from 1600s to early 21st
century
Hendrick Avercamp A Scene on the Ice (c. 1625)
(http//engr.calvin.edu/neth99/)
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Dutch winter landscapes from 1600s to early 21st
century
What can we deduce from depictions of the past?
Is a picture worth a thousand words?
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Dutch winter landscapes from 1600s to early 21st
century
Discussion What are issues to consider when
deducing climate information from paintings?
Discussion What might we deduce from this set?
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Other Dutch data from 1400s to 20th century
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Other Dutch data from 1400s to early 20th century
(Days for which a canal frozen between Laarlem
and Leiden, Holland)
Reconstructed winter temperature at De Bilt,
Holland)
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Climate Change in Art (Class Discussion) END