Interior of the Buurkerk, Utrecht (Q28798134)
Label from: English (en)
genre:
church interior (Q21074330)
artist:
Pieter Jansz. Saenredam (Q433804)
collection:
Kimbell Art Museum (Q1741629)
location:
Kimbell Art Museum (Q1741629)
instance of:
painting (Q3305213)
Google Arts & Culture asset ID:
qQGzjF-Jqa1nNg
catalog URL: https://www.kimbellart.org/collection/ap-198609
information from the Kimbell Art Museum catalog
description: Following a lengthy apprenticeship with a local Haarlem painter, Pieter Saenredam made a career specializing in what might be termed architectural portraiture. The clarity and harmony of his powerfully descriptive views of churches, stripped of earlier Catholic furnishings by the Calvinists, is underscored by his subtle manipulation of line and color. In the Kimbell painting, a crisp, cool light floods the interior, enlivening it with blue and pink tones as it strikes the varied surfaces of the vaults and floor tiles, the thinly painted figures providing a sense of scale. On the niche of the pillar at the left, the artist neatly inscribed his name and the date that he painted this view of the Buurkerk.
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