"View of Oudezijds Voorburgwal with the Oude Kerk in Amsterdam," Jan van der Heyden, 1670.
Van der Heyden (1637-1712) was a busy man...painter, draughtsman, glass painter, printmaker, engineer, and inventor.
He was one of the first painters of his era to specialize in cityscapes, and became noted as one of the top architectural painters of the Dutch Golden Age. His views of Amsterdam neighborhoods won him a great deal of popularity. Even though he painted with a great deal of detail, he also took artistic liberties, sometimes tweaking a building's proportions or the like.
He also painted a number of still lifes, mostly at the beginning of his career but also at the end; some see a sense of melancholy in his final works, as if he knew his end was coming.
He was never a professional painter; his chief employment was as an engineer. He invented a street lighting system for Amsterdam that was in use from 1669 to 1840, and copied by many cities. With his brother, a hydraulic engineer, he improved firefighting technology, created a new fire engine, and wrote the first manual on firefighting.
From the Mauritshuis, The Hague.
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Je ĉi dato en 1637 naskiĝis Jan van der Heyden, pentristo kaj inventanto, kiu plibonigis flaxeblajn tuboj ĉe fajrestingiloj, organizis voluntulan fajrobrigadon, kreis ampleksan planon por lumigi stratojn en Amsterdamo en uzo dum pli ol 170 jaroj, kaj faris plejparte pentraĵojn pri urbaj konstruaĵoj kaj arkitekturo. https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_van_der_Heyden
Bildo: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jan_van_der_Heyden_-_View_of_the_Westerkerk,_Amsterdam.jpg
This panel and its pendant (<a href=http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/436647 target="_blank" >64.65.2</a>) were painted by Van der Heyden about 1668–70. The Haarlem painter turned architect Pieter Post (1608–1669) designed the Huis ten Bosch (House in the Wood) about 1645 as a summer residence for Amalia van Solms, wife of the Stadholder, Prince Frederick Hendrick
🇳🇱 Amsterdam City View with Houses on the Herengracht and the Old Haarlemmersluis - a painting by the Dutch Golden Age painter Jan van der Heyden from 1670.
The Herengracht is the second of four Amsterdam canals belonging to the canal belt. It lies between the Singel and the Keizersgracht.
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