The Dutch Winter Landscapes Climatic Temporalities
The blossoming of Dutch painting is one of the richest facets of the Golden Age. Within that pictorial profusion, methodological as well as conceptual relevant thoughts come out after questioning the winter landscapes’ temporalities. This paper aims to analyze these temporalities through some Dutch pictorial representations which are part of a territory, almost homogeneous concerning the climate, politically and socially identified in the XVIIth century. First, it will be questioned the plurisecular climatic temporality as those paintings belong to the Little Ice Age (ca. 1300-1860). The winter season will be the next time step. Finally, it will be a short time step which corresponds to the weather of the day. Knowing that the winters are particularly long and cold in the Little Ice Age, those different temporalities are interwoven.