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Winter Landscape with Ice Skaters, c.1608. Hendrick Avercamp turned the winter landscape into a subject in its own right. A typical feature of his early work is the high horizon. This enabled Avercamp to focus on the dozens of figures on the ice. He showed all kinds of uncouth details in this bird's-eye view, including couples making love and going to the toilet and in the distance, in the middle, a man urinating.