Pieter Jansz. Saenredam worked at a period when the terms of art itself were being renegotiated.
The record lists Pieter Jansz. Saenredam as painter of the Dutch Golden Age (1597-1665).
Pieter Jansz. Saenredam was born at Assendelft in 1597. His recorded nationality is Netherlands.
This was the period in which the artist became an individual with a signature, a reputation and a price.
He worked as painter, draftsperson and graphic artist.
Among his best-known works are Interior of the Cunerakerk in Rhenen, The Mariaplaats with the Mariakerk in Utrecht and Interior of the Church of St Bavo in Haarlem. An artist's reputation moves with taste, but the work stays exactly where it was left.
That the work was made in Netherlands shaped it: artistic traditions, academies and the galleries that decide what is seen have never been evenly distributed.
Pieter Jansz. Saenredam died in 1665, aged 68. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
Achievements
- Notable work: Interior of the Cunerakerk in Rhenen
- Notable work: The Mariaplaats with the Mariakerk in Utrecht
- Notable work: Interior of the Church of St Bavo in Haarlem
