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The landscapes by Seghers, of which "Mountainous Landscape" is a good example, continue the Mannerist tradition of his teacher Gillis van Coninxloo. There is a similar strong sense of the mysterious and bizarre grandeur of nature. The architecture of these landscapes, the clear logic of their organization and of the measured progression into a deep and ordered space, reveals a debt to contemporary realism; but Seghers was not satisfied with rendering what his eye perceived; he had grander visions of a nature more forbidding, more awe-inspiring - and these he painted, with his Dutch sensitivity to changing light and atmosphere.
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