Comparative Cultural Considerations on Rain (雨の比較文化考）
Comparative Cultural Considerations on Rain, 2018 By Yamada Tadashi 山田維史 「雨の比較文化考」 ある医療クリニックのカンファレンス・ルームでの講義原稿 Introduction When I try to recall works depicting rain in the history of Western painting, I can't immediately think of any. Naturally, it is a motif in landscape paintings. The earliest painter to focus on landscapes was probably Leonardo da Vinci. In the so-called "Windsor Leaves" in the Royal Library at Windsor Castle, there is a "Storm in a Valley at the Foot of the Alps" along with a study sketch of the famous "Flood." I think the countless "lines" pouring violently from the cloud masses are rain. There is a drawing in Dutch painting that is very similar to this da Vinci drawing. It is "Landscape in the Rain" by Meindert Hobbema, who is known only to have been a pupil of the master Ruisdael. It is owned by the Hermitage M...