Dutch Baroque architecture

Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Royal Palace (Amsterdam): Jacob van Campen
, 1646.
Oostkerk, Middelburg: Arent van 's-Gravesande [nl], 1667.

Dutch Baroque architecture is a variety of Baroque architecture that flourished in the Dutch Republic and its colonies during the Dutch Golden Age of the 17th century. (Dutch painting during the period is covered by Dutch Golden Age painting).

Like contemporary developments in England, Dutch

House of Orange and new civic buildings, uninfluenced by the Counter-Reformation style that made some headway in Antwerp
.

The major exponents of the mid-17th century,

Het Loo
.

The

Dutch Colonial architecture, once flourishing in the Hudson River Valley and associated primarily with red-brick gabled houses, may still be seen in Willemstad, Curaçao
, although painted with more varied colors.

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References

  • Jakob Rosenberg, Seymour Slive, and E.H. ter Kuile, Dutch Art and Architecture, 1600 to 1800, 3rd ed. (1977).