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John Crome Moonrise on the Yare
Narrator:
Moonrise on the Yare, by John Crome. Around 1811 to 1816. David Blayney Brown/David Dimbleby DBB: 'The powerful contrast of light and dark and the moon partly hidden behind the silhouettes of houses and a windmill bring to mind, more perhaps than any other painter, Rembrandt. So this really is Crome putting together the interests that he and his patrons had in 17th century Dutch painting with his own experience of the Norfolk landscape. Marvellous the way he's caught this mellow glow of the moonlight reflecting on the surface of the water. DD: It's the one bit of England where you can see it almost as Crome saw it because they're restoring the windmills. You go there on a sunny day and you see these huge white sails apparently sailing through the fields and then you realise that it's one of the Broads and there's a boat sailing along. So it's worth going to, to compare it with the way that Crome and others saw it.'
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