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"Detail of portrait from his biography by Karel van Mander Church Interior, after 1580 Hendrik van Steenwijck I (also Steenwyck, Steenwijk) (c. 1550 – buried 1 September 1603Hendrik van Steenwijck I at the Netherlands Institute for Art History) was a Dutch Golden Age painter, from early in the period, known mainly for his church interiors. Imaginary View of Antwerp Cathedral, after 1570 Van Steenwijck was born in Kampen, and was a student of the architectural painter Hans Vredeman de Vries, and the father of Hendrik van Steenwijk IIFrans Baudouin, "Hendrick van Steenwijk (i)," Grove Art Online, Oxford University Press, [accessed November 26, 2007]. He is known to have worked in Aachen (1573-6), Antwerp (1577–85) and Frankfurt (from 1586 on), where he died. Van Steenwijck is the earliest-known painter of architectural interiors, a genre that was popular in Dutch Golden Age and Flemish Baroque painting. In addition to introducing the new genre, he also worked with more natural lighting and perspectival space than found in the works of his teacher Vredeman de Vries. Notes Further reading * (see index, v.1). External links *Vermeer and The Delft School, a full text exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which contains material on Hendrik van Steenwijk I 1550s births 1603 deaths Dutch Renaissance painters People from Kampen, Overijssel "
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