Mariakerk Interior, Utrecht

Interior of the Mariakerk, Utrecht

Mariakerk Interior, Utrecht Interior of the Mariakerk, Utrecht Saendredam, Pieter Jansz Architectural illustration Churches Dutch paintings Baroque paintings Pieter Jansz Saenredam (1597-1665), a Dutch painter, spent most of his life in Haarlem. Saenredam was a painter of structures and was sometimes called an architectural portraitist. Specializing in the interiors and exteriors of Dutch gothic churches, he is known for his austere, meticulously executed work. The geometry of buildings serves as the focus of his works, in which tiny figures move through great, spacious halls filled with diffused. While his output as a painter was small, Saenredam was also a superb draftsman, and many of his architectural drawings have survived. But of his fifty surviving paintings, almost half show the interiors of two churches, Saint Bavo and the Mariakerk in Utrecht. Davis Publications, Worchester, Massachusetts 1651 CE Painting Digital image Tiff; JPEG2000 Oil on wood Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California, United States 17th century, Dutch, Baroque Utrecht, Netherlands Davis Publications, Worchester, Massachusetts

Mariakerk Interior, Utrecht

Interior of the Mariakerk, Utrecht

Saendredam, Pieter Jansz

Architectural illustration

Churches

Dutch paintings

Baroque paintings

Pieter Jansz Saenredam (1597-1665), a Dutch painter, spent most of his life in Haarlem. Saenredam was a painter of structures and was sometimes called an architectural portraitist. Specializing in the interiors and exteriors of Dutch gothic churches, he is known for his austere, meticulously executed work. The geometry of buildings serves as the focus of his works, in which tiny figures move through great, spacious halls filled with diffused. While his output as a painter was small, Saenredam was also a superb draftsman, and many of his architectural drawings have survived. But of his fifty surviving paintings, almost half show the interiors of two churches, Saint Bavo and the Mariakerk in Utrecht.

Davis Publications, Worchester, Massachusetts

1651 CE

Painting

Digital image

Tiff; JPEG2000

Oil on wood

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California, United States

17th century, Dutch, Baroque

Utrecht, Netherlands

Davis Publications, Worchester, Massachusetts