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ID |
Image |
Painting(From A to Z) |
Details |
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53823 |
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Grote Kerk Haarlem |
mk234
1636-37
60x82cm |
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52552 |
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Interior of the St. Jans Kerk at Utrecht |
Oil on wood |
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43193 |
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THe Interior of the Grote Kerk,Haarlem |
mk170
1636-1637
Oil on oak
59.5x81.7cm
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56075 |
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the lnterior of the buurkerk at utrecht |
mk247
1644,oil on wood,23x19 in,60x50 cm,national gallery,london,uk |
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Pieter Saenredam
b. 1597, Assendelft, d. 1665, Haarlem,Painter and draughtsman, son of Jan Saenredam. His paintings of churches and the old town halls in Haarlem, Utrecht and Amsterdam must have been appreciated by contemporary viewers principally as faithful representations of familiar and meaningful monuments. Yet they also reveal his exceptional sensitivity to aesthetic values; his paintings embody the most discriminating considerations of composition, colouring and craftsmanship. His oeuvre is comparatively small, the paintings numbering no more than 60, and each is obviously the product of careful calculation and many weeks of work. Their most striking features, unusual in the genre, are their light, closely valued tonalities and their restrained, restful and delicately balanced compositions. These pictures, always executed on smooth panels, are remarkable for their sense of harmony and, in some instances, serenity. Here, perhaps, lies a trace of filial fidelity to the Mannerist tradition of refinement and elegance, of lines never lacking in precision and grace. But Mannerist figures and the more comparable components of strap- and scrollwork embellishment lack the tension and clarity of Saenredam's designs, which also have a completeness reminiscent of the fugues of Gerrit Sweelinck (1566-?1628).
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