Press Event: Pride of Place: Dutch Cityscapes in the Golden Age

Description

Visitors will travel back in time to Dutch cities of the 17th century during ‘Pride of Place: Dutch Cityscapes of the Golden Age,’ on view February 1 through May 3, 2009, in the West Building, National Gallery of Art, Washington. The exhibition of 48 paintings and 23 maps, atlases, and illustrated books will offer a breathtaking survey of the Dutch cityscape, from wide-angle panoramas depicting the urban skyline with its fortifications, windmills, and church steeples, to renderings of daily life along the canals, in city streets, and in town squares.