- Not to be confused with the Delft School of architecture. In Dutch architecture, Traditionalism or the Traditionalist School was a reaction against the Functionalism and the Expressionism of the
The Delft School is a category of mid-17th century Dutch Baroque genre painting named after its main base, Delft. This article focuses on social and cultural history For political events see History of the Netherlands and Dutch Revolt (1568–1648 Genre works, also called genre scenes or genre views, are pictorial representations in any of various media that represent scenes or events from everyday life Delft is a city and Municipality in the province of South Holland (Zuid-Holland the Netherlands. It is best known for images of domestic life, views of households, church interiors, courtyards, squares and the streets of that city. Carel Fabritius and Nicolaes Maes are seen as the originators of these localised specialties in the 1640s that were continued in the 1650s by Pieter de Hooch and Johannes Vermeer. Carel Fabritius (bapt Feb 27 1622, Middenbeemster - Oct 12 1654, Delft) was a Dutch painter and one of Nicolaes Maes, also known as Nicolaes Maas (January 1634 Dordrecht - buried November 24, 1693, Amsterdam) was a Dutch Baroque Pieter de Hooch (pronounced, also spelled "Hoogh" or "Hooghe" (baptized December 20, 1629 – 1684 was a genre painter during the Johannes or Jan Vermeer (baptized in Delft with the name Joannis on October 31 1632, and buried in the same city under the name Jan Vermeer is the most famous of these painters today. The architectural interiors of Gerard Houckgeest and Hendrick Cornelisz. van Vliet are also notable contributions. Hendrick Cornelisz van Vliet (1611/1612 Delft - buried October 28 1675, Delft was a Dutch painter Besides the genres most closely associated with Delft painters, artists in the city continued to produced still life and history paintings, portraits for patrons and the court, and decorative pieces of art that reflect more general tendencies in Dutch art of the period. This article is about Still Life (or still lifes as plural the art form History painting, as formulated in 1667 by André Félibien, a historiographer architect and theoretician of French Classicism, was in the Hierarchy
References
- "The School of Delft" at Essential Vermeer
- Vermeer and the Delft School (Metropolitan Museum, March 8, 2001–May 27, 2001)
- Vermeer and the Delft School (same exhibition at the National Gallery, 20 June - 16 Sept 2001)
- Vermeer and the Delft School, by Walter Liedtke (in collaboration with Michael C. Plomp and Axel Ruger)
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