National Gallery of Art
Pride of Place: Dutch Cityscapes of the Golden Age
Now – May 3
In the 17th century a new genre of painting – the cityscape – emerged. Images of towns and cities became expressions of enormous civic pride. This exhibition of some 48 paintings, as well as 23 maps, atlases, illustrated books, and prints, offers a comprehensive 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 canals, in city streets, and in town squares.















