All-around genius working for peace, beauty, and intelligent thought.
IRL: professor of art history. Occasionally write things about Rubens. Also Dutch art, the Bruegel family, and Elizabethan visual culture.
Reader of many novels. DC & Amsterdam.
Dr. Peter Paul Rubens
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Nave & Choir of the Mariakerk in Utrecht. Complete with dogs, graffiti, and a group of people admiring a painting of the Utrecht Bull. By Pieter Saenredam, on his day.
3/3 Hanging above the door of the Mariakerk -- a painting of its interior. How strange! But cool. Wonder if this is real, or Saenredam's fiction.
West facade of the Mariakerk, Utrecht, painted in 1662 by Pieter Saenredam, looking aged and silent.
3/3 Pieter Saenredam's amazing drawing of the Buurkerk in Utrecht, 1636. Inscribed below window near center with an eye point where he focused his eye while working.
2/2 17th-century graffiti. As signed by Pieter Saenredam, whose day is today.
2/2 The vanished Mariakerk in Utrecht, now painted from another angle in 1659 by Pieter Saenredam. Today is his day.
View down the nave of an exceptionally whitewashed Bavokerk, 1631. It wasn’t really this lacking in decoration, but Saenredam’s patrons liked clean look. Today was his day.
Buurkerk in Utrecht, 1644, with dogs. Painted by Pieter Saenredam, who was born on this day in 1597.
