Utrecht School
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The term Utrecht School refers to a group of painters active in the city of Utrecht in the Netherlands in the early part of the 17th century. It is part of what is called Baroque.
The members of the group had in common that they were all strongly influenced by the then recently deceased Caravaggio, who died in 1610. Painters like Dirck van Baburen, Gerrit van Honthorst and Hendrick Terbrugghen were all in Rome in the decade 1610–1620, a time when Caravaggio's style (see chiaroscuro) was very influential. Back in Utrecht, they painted religious pictures, but, unlike Caravaggio himself, also genre pieces. In the late 1620s, their style began to change.
The Utrecht School can be considered to have influenced later painters like Georges de La Tour and Rembrandt.
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- ↑ Murray, P. & L. (1996), Dictionary of art and artists. Penguin Books. ISBN 0-14-051300-0.
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