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The Delft school is a category of mid-17th-century Dutch Golden Age painting named after the city of its centre, Delft. It is best known for genre painting —images of domestic life, views of households, church interiors, courtyards, squares and the streets of that city.
1621 - Bank of Delft established. [8] 1632 - Future scientist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek and future artist Johannes Vermeer born in Delft. [9] 1647 - Production of Delft pottery begins to expand. [9] 1652 - Fabritius paints A View of Delft artwork. 1653 - Royal Delft porcelain factory begins operating. 1654 - 12 October: Delft Explosion. [1]
The Delft School is known for its images of domestic life and views of households, church interiors, courtyards, squares and the streets of Delft. The painters also produced pictures showing historic events, flowers, portraits for patrons and the court as well as decorative pieces of art. Delft supports creative arts' companies.
View of Delft (Dutch: Zicht op Delft) is an oil painting by Johannes Vermeer, painted c. 1659–1661. The painting of the Dutch artist's hometown is among his best known. [ 1 ] It is one of three known paintings of Delft by Vermeer, along with The Little Street and the lost painting House Standing in Delft , [ 2 ] and his only cityscape. [ 3 ]
The paintings of Van Vliet can be seen at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, Centraal Museum Utrecht, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Walker Art Gallery (Liverpool, England), the Milwaukee Art Museum, the Ringling Art Museum in Sarasota, Florida, the Nelson-Atkins Art Museum in Kansas City, Missouri, the Baltimore Museum of Art in Baltimore, the Bildenden Kunste Art Museum in ...
Het Prinsenhof ("The Court of the Prince") is a museum in the city of Delft in the Netherlands. Formerly the monastery of St Agatha, the building changed purpose over time. The whole building came into the possession of Delft City Council by 1925, who gradually converted the building into a museum. [1]
A View of Delft, with a Musical Instrument Seller's Stall is a 1652 painting by Carel Fabritius. It is an oil painting on canvas of 20.9 by 35.7 cm (8.2 by 14.1 in) of a cityscape of Delft . The work has been in the collection of the National Gallery in London since 1922.
The Master of Delft (fl c. 1490 –1520) was a Dutch painter of the final period of Early Netherlandish painting, whose name is unknown. [1] He may have been born around 1470. The notname was first used in 1913 by Max Jakob Friedländer , in describing the wings of a Triptych with the Virgin and Child with St Anne with the central panel by the ...