Architectural Views

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A genre of painting that focused predominantly on buildings and their interiors rather than treating them as background. Architectural painting developed as an independent genre during the sixteenth century in Flanders and the Netherlands, reaching its height with Dutch paintings in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Its notable proponents include Bartholomeus van Bassen, Paul Vredeman de Vries, Hendrik van Steenwijk I, Theo van Doesburg and Jan van der Heyden.

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Architectural Views%newline%A genre of painting that focused predominantly on buildings and their interiors rather than treating them as background. Architectural painting developed as an independent genre during the sixteenth century in Flanders and the Netherlands, reaching its height with Dutch paintings in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Its notable proponents include Bartholomeus van Bassen, Paul Vredeman de Vries, Hendrik van Steenwijk I, Theo van Doesburg and Jan van der Heyden.

Chicago	MAP Academy Encyclopedia of Art. “Architectural Views”. Accessed January 16, 2025. https://mapacademy.io/glossary/architectural-views/
MLA	“Architectural Views.” MAP Academy Encyclopedia of Art. https://mapacademy.io/glossary/architectural-views/. Accessed 16, January, 2025.
Harvard	MAP Academy Encyclopedia of Art. (2022) Architectural Views. [Online]. Available at: https://mapacademy.io/glossary/architectural-views/. (Accessed: 16, January, 2025)