Emanuel de Witte
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Emanuel de Witte (1617–1692) was a Dutch
Life
De Witte was born in
Following the arrest of his wife and child, de Witte was forced to indenture himself to the
De Witte initially painted portraits as well as mythological and religious scenes. After his move from Delft to Amsterdam in 1651, de Witte specialized more and more in representing church interiors, and also he painted the old church in Amsterdam from almost every corner. He sometimes combined aspects of different churches to depict interiors of ideal churches, populating them with churchgoers, sometimes accompanied by a dog. De Witte's excellent sense of composition combined with his use of light created a powerful sense of space. According to Walter Liedtke, de Witt's "main interest was the space itself – its light, color, sheer extent, and mood – not the architecture for its own sake"; the careful arrangement of light serves to "intensify the sensation of being within a great but at the same time sheltered space."[4]
Sources
- ^ Van Eeghen, P. van (1958) Kinderbescherming 300 en 200 jaar geleden. Maandblad Amstelodamum, December 1958, p. 221-3; Van Eeghen, I.H. van (1976) De familiestukken van Metsu van 1657 en van De Witte van 1678 met vier levensgeschiedenissen. Jaarboek Amstelodamum, p. 88-89.
- ^ Crenshaw, P. (2006) Rembrandt's Bankruptcy. The artist, his patrons and the art market in the seventeenth-century Netherlands, p. 85.
- ^ De Grote Schouwburg (1995) Schildersbiografieën van Arnold Houbraken. Samenstelling Jan Konst en Manfred Sellink.
- ISBN 0300088485.
- E. P. Richardson, De Witte and the imaginative nature of Dutch art in Art Quarterly I, 1938, S. 5 ff.
External links
- Website on De Witte in Delft
- The Rijksmuseum on De Witte
- Works and literature on Emanuel de Witte
- Vermeer and The Delft School, an exhibition catalogue from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on Emanuel de Witte (see index)
- The Milkmaid by Johannes Vermeer, an exhibition catalogue from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on Emanuel de Witte (cat. no. 12)
- Dutch and Flemish paintings from the Hermitage, an exhibition catalogue from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on Emanuel de Witte(cat. no. 33)
- Art Now and Then: Emanuel de Witte