Church interior animated with figures

Recognized as one of the best landscape artists of his time, Abel Grimmer also played a major role as a painter of church interiors. Passionate about architecture, he demonstrates a subtle and ethereal use of lines and light. The forerunner of a genre that would lead to a school, Abel Grimmer, with his church interiors, opened the way for numerous imitators such as Pieter Neefs. Signed and dated Abel Grimmer Fecit 1606.