The Luminous Landscapes of Mathys Schoevaerdts In the golden twilight of the seventeenth century, a period where the Flemish tradition began to weave itself into the more sun-drenched aesthetics of the Italianate style, emerged the evocative hand of Mathys Schoevaerdts. Born in Brussels around 1665, Schoevaerdts was an artist who possessed the rare ability to capture not just the physical topography of a landscape, but its very soul. His work serves as a breathtaking bridge between the meticulous, crowded genre scenes of the early Flemish masters and the more atmospheric, expansive vistas th…