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Abel Grimmer (c 1570-1618/19), Interior of a Church, nd, Flemish. Oil on panel. 100.3x69.9 cm. Courtesy of the Patrick and Beatrice Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wis (http://www.marquette.edu/haggerty); museum purchase, Cava Ross Estate Bequest.

Of the many types of painting practiced by the Dutch and Flemish artists of the 16th and 17th centuries, it is genre, perhaps, that comes most readily to mind. Other than the usual grand tableaux of knights, nobles, kings, popes, and saints, these artists from the Low Countries chose to depict common, everyday scenes from the lives of common, ordinary citizens. They were exteriors as well as interiors: courtyards, streets, and towns, as well as kitchens, taverns, boudoirs, and brothels. But peculiar to these Dutch and Flemish painters is another type as well, which is actually a refinement of genre: architectural painting, specifically, church interiors, though some landscape and . . . [Full Text of this Article]