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From floor level, we look toward a semicircular apse of a window-lined, light-filled church in this vertical painting. We are situated near the left wall, so we look along that wall into the apse, where there is a painting set in an elaborate frame over an altar. Soaring above us, the cream-white walls are divided into three zones, with arched openings at the bottom level, a narrow, shallow walkway above, and a row of tall, arched windows at the top. Vertical, rose-pink ribs between the windows in the top level converge just off the top center of the painting, in a curved, ribbed vault. Five…

Cathedral of Saint John at 's-Hertogenbosch

Pieter Jansz Saenredam (Dutch, 1597 - 1665)

1646 · oil on panel

National Gallery of Art · Samuel H. Kress Collection

Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0)

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