Architectural painting

Closely related genres are architectural fantasies and trompe-l'oeils, especially illusionistic ceiling painting, and cityscapes.

[3] Students of Hans Vredeman de Vries, both in Flanders and in the Netherlands, include his sons Salomon and Paul, and Hendrik van Steenwijk I.

Through them the genre was popularized and their family and students turned it into one of the main domains of Dutch Golden Age painting.

Notable Dutch painter of the genre include: Architectural paintings, and the related vedute or cityscapes, were especially popular in 18th century Italy.

Known masters of the genre include the 10th century painter Guo Zhongshu, and Wang Zhenpeng, who was active around 1300.

The old City Hall of Amsterdam by Pieter Jansz. Saenredam , 1657, Rijksmuseum , Amsterdam
Architectural landscape by Hans Vredeman de Vries , Hermitage Museum
Antwerp Cathedral by Hendrik van Steenwijk I and Jan Brueghel the Elder , Museum of Fine Arts , Budapest
Paul Vredeman de Vries, 1612, Interior of a Gothic Cathedral , Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Andrea Pozzo, 1703, illusionistic ceiling painting in the Jesuit Church, Vienna
Dirck van Delen, A family beside the tomb of Willem I in the Nieuwe Kerk, Delft , 1645, Rijksmuseum
Heinrich Hansen, "Sala Delle Quattro Porte, Palazzo Ducale , Venice", 1883
Thomas H. Shepherd, 1853, New England Bank , British Museum