Artist: Pieter Jansz. Saenredam
Date: 1653
Size: 86 x 103 cm
Museum: Museum of Fine Arts (Budapest, Hungary)
Technique: Oak
A few decades ago the art history world was buzzing with a provocative theory put forward by an American scholar. According to this still hotly disputed thesis, Dutch art - unlike the Italian tradition, which always told stories - basically strove to observe and describe objects, and ultimately to know the world through experience; one might say this approach was of scientific nature, rather than literary. Whatever one
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