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SUNDAY Feature on ART of Architecture -by Gautam Shah
Hendrick Frans van Lint (1684-1763) was a Flemish landscape and vedute painter. He was part of the group of Flemish and Dutch painters then active in Rome. He was born in Antwerp but at young age left for Rome (sometime between 1697-1700).
Art technique of Hendrick was meticulous one. He worked with extensive preparatory site work, as sketches and studies, in pencil, pen and wash. He used to develop full-scale compositions on canvas, and then added ruins and classical buildings to substantiate the topical imaginary. On one hand, he worked with idealized natural landscapes, and also near-realistic scenes of towns. In later part of the career, he began to paint everything in Rome, and this resulted in some daring views.
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