# Choir of Sint-Bavokerk, Haarlem

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## Artwork

- Artist: [SAENREDAM, Pieter Jansz](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/saenredam-pieter-jansz-r947bf5b82af482>)
- Date: 1601-1650
- Technique: Oil on oak, 48 x 37 cm

## Commentary

Passion for the purity of light and line, so strong an element in Dutch art, is found at its most abstract in the art of Saenredam. He restricted his subject matter largely to the portrayal of whitewashed Dutch ecclesiastical interiors, which he shows stripped of centuries of medieval embellishment by the Reformation&#39;s iconoclasm, as seen in the Choir of St. Bavo, Haarlem. It was in this great church that Saenredam and Frans Hals were buried.

## Related artworks

- [Interior of Sint-Bavokerk in Haarlem](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/saenredam-pieter-jansz-r947bf5b82af482/interior-of-sint-bavokerk-in-haarlem-r6b001327a1b885>)
- [Interior of the Choir of Sint-Bavokerk at Haarlem](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/saenredam-pieter-jansz-r947bf5b82af482/interior-of-the-choir-of-sint-bavokerk-at-haarlem-rd509987b048565>)
- [Interior of the Choir of Sint-Bavokerk at Haarlem](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/saenredam-pieter-jansz-r947bf5b82af482/interior-of-the-choir-of-sint-bavokerk-at-haarlem-rdeed819e1c22b7>)
- [Interior of the Church in Alkmaar](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/saenredam-pieter-jansz-r947bf5b82af482/interior-of-the-church-in-alkmaar-r7283883eb1a0d5>)
- [Interior of the Church of St Anne in Haarlem](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/saenredam-pieter-jansz-r947bf5b82af482/interior-of-the-church-of-st-anne-in-haarlem-rdd006e9d3c0704>)
- [Interior of the Church of St Odulphus, Assendelft \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/saenredam-pieter-jansz-r947bf5b82af482/interior-of-the-church-of-st-odulphus-assendelft-detail-r07ae4a8e225888>)
- [Interior of the Church of St Odulphus, Assendelft](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/saenredam-pieter-jansz-r947bf5b82af482/interior-of-the-church-of-st-odulphus-assendelft-rc73ab50c5a2241>)
- [Interior of the Sint-Bavokerk at Haarlem](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/saenredam-pieter-jansz-r947bf5b82af482/interior-of-the-sint-bavokerk-at-haarlem-r92889968ae838c>)
- [Interior of the Sint-Bavokerk in Haarlem](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/saenredam-pieter-jansz-r947bf5b82af482/interior-of-the-sint-bavokerk-in-haarlem-r1627b626b459ae>)
- [Interior of the Sint-Bavokerk in Haarlem](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/saenredam-pieter-jansz-r947bf5b82af482/interior-of-the-sint-bavokerk-in-haarlem-r7513c960101a08>)
- [Interior of the Sint-Bavokerk in Haarlem](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/saenredam-pieter-jansz-r947bf5b82af482/interior-of-the-sint-bavokerk-in-haarlem-r967c875d3ef012>)
- [Interior of the St Jacob Church in Utrecht](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/saenredam-pieter-jansz-r947bf5b82af482/interior-of-the-st-jacob-church-in-utrecht-r382a1deacde529>)

## Attribution

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