ANTHONIE DE LORME

Post 192 -Gautam Shah 

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SUNDAY Feature on ART of Architecture

 

ANTHONIE DE LORME (1610–1673) was a Dutch painter. He was called a Master of Space. He mainly painted real and imaginary church interiors of Rotterdam. Many of his details (depicted in the interior of the Church of Saint Lawrence, Rotterdam) were used for restorations after WW-II.

De Lorme's imaginary views of the church interiors were his forte for the first twenty years of his career, but around 1652, he began to draw accurate or real-life interior views of the local churches with a few figures, probably inserted by a friend. Later he painted church interiors’ close-up, bathed in light. From 1660s De Lorme refined his simple, realistic style into a more decorative manner, using architecture to create spatial effects than an objective scenes. He experimented with bold light effects and shadows, often from a single source like candles and torches at night.

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