Dutch "Kleyne Kercken" of the 17th Century: Concept, Definition, Term

Abstract

This study advanced our understanding of the pictorial or graphic images of the church defining the religious building, its exterior and interior. The places of worship were reinterpreted by Dutch artists in connection with the Reformation, stood out by the 17th century as a special genre in the period 1630s–1690s. Throughout the entire period of studying paintings depicting religious buildings, various definitions corresponding to the concept of researchers appeared in publications: “architectural painting”, “architectural landscape”, “church interior”, “church perspective”. Thus, a unified approach in defining different types of such images has not been by now developed. The search for an adequate terminology reflects the course of scientific thought and is inextricably linked to the problems of methodology, classification, genre stratification, ways of spatial constructions and their interpretation. The article presents a historical overview of the formation of terminological concepts and analyzes related problematic issues.

Keywords

Post-Reformation art; conceptual apparatus; architectural painting and graphics; Pieter Saenredam; Emanuel de Witte;

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