. Inglese: una nave in un mare agitato In questo dipinto, Verbeeck riprende il tema stabilito di navi a vela fuori da una costa rocciosa in un vento di tempesta che compare in entrambi i fiamminghi e olandesi paesaggi marini durante il primo quarto del XVII secolo. Al di sotto di un moderatamente cielo velato, quattro navi sono cavallo gigantesche, crested onde. L'acqua in primo piano è immerso in una profonda ombra. Tre delle navi sono visti in un area più chiara vicino all'orizzonte, la distanza a destra e a sinistra, tutti in esecuzione prima di un moderato vento di tempesta che soffia da sfondo a destra. Nel centro della Composit

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. English: A Ship in a Rough Sea In this painting, Verbeeck takes up the established subject of ships sailing off a rocky coast in a gale, which appears in both Flemish and Dutch seascapes during the first quarter of the seventeenth century. Under a moderately clouded sky, four vessels are riding out gigantic, crested waves. The water, in the foreground, is plunged into deep shadow. Three of the vessels are seen in a lighter area close to the horizon, in the distance to left and right, all running before a moderate gale which is blowing from the right background. In the centre of the composition, the fourth is shown, in port-bow view, pitching in the waves on a rough sea. In the right foreground, a rocky coastline rises up. Wreckage and a barrel can be seen floating beneath the menacing cliffs. Waves crash against the ship from astern and figures in the rigging lower the fore and main yards, whose sails billow out accordingly. The spritsail and lateen mizzen sail are, also, furled. The pitch of the ship shows a number of figures on the deck and potential for disaster is implied by the proximity of the vessel to the rocks, which it is, however, managing to avoid. The dangers of a rocky shore are emphasized by the floating barrel and masthead, presumably from a ship already wrecked nearby. To the left, the whale raises its head out of the water and opens its ferocious mouth. The sailors, pictured as tiny figures on the deck of the vessel, are obviously trying to negotiate the dangers. The motif of the vessel endangered by a giant sea creature during a storm can be traced back to the art of the Bruegel family in the latter half of the sixteenth century. It was circulated in contemporary prints and appeared in seventeenth-century emblem literature. Sea monsters symbolized the terrors of the deep in a generally overwhelming universe. More specifically, sailors feared that whales would deliberately ram their ships. Therefore, the allegorical meaning of the motif, particu