Author: HOWARTH, J.
Title: Steenwyck Family as Masters of Perspective.
Description: Turnhout, Brepols, 2009 Hardback, original editor's jacket, english, 19x25 cm., XIV+555 pp., 200 b/w illustrations and 16 colour illustrations. ISBN 9782503515090. ¶ Pictura Nova PICT 12. The Steenwyck family, Hendrick the Elder and his son Hendrick the Younger, together with the latter's wife Susanna Gaspoel, represent a remarkable group of artists, successful and well regarded in their own time, but now somewhat overlooked. They were among the first artists to concentrate on making use of the science of perspective to produce idealised and meticulously painted architectural scenes, enhanced by elegant figures, sometimes executed by artists of the quality of Jan Brueghel I, as the basis of a new style of painting. Spanning the turbulent period from the late 16th to the mid 17th centuries they succeeded in producing a new art form that found favour with connoisseurs in much of Europe, including the court of King Charles I in London, where Steenwyck the Younger worked for over 20 years.

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