The Nieuwezijds Voorburgswal with the Flower Market, Amsterdam

Gerrit Adriaensz. Berckheyde painted urban views of cities such as Haarlem, Amsterdam, The Hague and Cologne. As a young man he also visited both Cologne and Heidelberg with his brother Job. Berckheyde studied the work of his predecessor Pieter Saenredam and faithfully reflected the principles of that artist, who invented the genre of architectural paintings with buildings depicted in a careful, r…