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| Keywords: Hendrick van Streeck - Imaginary Interior of a Protestant Church - Walters 372752.jpg After 1581 when the northern Netherlandish provinces declared their independence from Catholic Spain most Dutch Catholic churches were whitewashed for the use of Protestants especially the followers of John Calvin In covering the frescoes of biblical subjects that Catholic worshipers had treasured for their beauty and as aids to devotion these Protestants strictly interpreted the biblical injunction against images of the divine that could lead to idolatry They focused on God's word and preaching depicted here was central to their worship The white light-filled spaces have an abstract beauty that Van Streek has enhanced by a brilliant splotch of crimson in the coat of the fashionable man in the foreground and by his shadow sliding over the pew This imaginary interior is based on the Old Church Oude Kerk in Amsterdam ca 1690 Baroque Oil on canvas Langswitch Rahmen Frame cm 60 17 50 01 <br> Painting cm 44 45 34 29 1 91 accession number 37 2752 18691 Jack Kilgore and Co Inc New York Walters Art Museum 1998 by purchase Museum purchase with assistance of the W Alton Jones Foundation Acquisition Fund 1998 Highlights from the Collection The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1998-2001 Treasures of Heaven The Cleveland Museum of Art Cleveland; The Walters Art Museum Baltimore; The British Museum London 2010-2011 place of origin Amsterdam Netherlands Walters Art Museum license 2D Baroque paintings in the Walters Art Museum Hendrick van Streeck Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review | ||||
