"Interior of Cathedral at Aachen"

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Description of "Interior of Cathedral at Aachen", done in 1573 by Hendrick van Steenwijk. The writer also describes his own personal appreciation for this particular piece, as well as the artist's works in general. Finally, the paper offers some background information on the artist.

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"The title of the oil painting "Interior of Cathedral at Aachen" 1573 by the Flemish Hendrick van Steenwijk (c.1550-1603) might originally strike in the reader's mind with the image and impression of a high-reaching cathedral that shocks the eye. A viewer expecting such a work, however, will find him or herself quite disappointed. Upon first glance of this work hanging in the Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Providence, Rhode Island, a viewer is immediately struck by the painting's conveyed sense of smallness and interiority. Rather than reaching out to the heavens, the painting takes place and evolves in its perspective through the use and succession of a series of curves and half-circles. The circular, cloistering sense is further confirmed by the shadows that play upon the depicted corridor of the cathedral."

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