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BERCKHEYDE, Gerrit Adriaensz.
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The_Market_Square_at_Haarlem_with_the_St_Bavo
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1696
Oil_on_canvas
Frans_Halsmuseum,_Haarlem
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The Market Square at Haarlem with the St Bavo
BERCKHEYDE, Gerrit Adriaensz.3.jpg
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Oil on canvas
Frans Halsmuseum, Haarlem |
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Dutch Baroque Era Painter, 1638-1698
Brother of Job Berckheyde. Gerrit specialized in a particular type of architectural subject, the TOWNSCAPE. His painted work shows a debt not only to Pieter Saenredam's conception of the building portrait but also to Saenredam's refined draughtsmanship and dispassionate attitude; these qualities mark Berckheyde as a classicist and akin to Vermeer. Berckheyde favoured views of monuments on large open squares, a choice that distinguishes him from the other great Dutch townscape painter, Jan van der Heyden, who preferred views along canals in which clarity was sacrificed for pictorial effect.
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