DELEN, Dirck van
(b. 1604/5, Heusden, d. 1671, Arnemuiden)

Interior of an Imaginary Church

1640s
Oil on panel, 40 x 59 cm
Private collection

Most of Van Delen's paintings from the 1620s feature dark, rather rigid and angular, Renaissance-style architecture and usually include a vanishing point exactly in the middle of the painting. During the 1640s, the decade in which the present work was executed, Van Delen crafted a more monumental, simpler, cubic style, which was at once more somber and more coherent architecturally.




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