This painting is typical of Norman Rockwell in that it depicts a warm and comforting scene.ħ Norman Rockwell painting, “Willie Gillis in College”, 1946.ġ0 Norman Rockwell Norman Percevel Rockwell (Febru– November 8, 1978) was a 20th-century American painter and illustrator. This chapter opens with a reproduction of a Norman Rockwell painting titled ““Willie Gillis in College”, 1946. The essay is a sometimes rambling, wide ranging, exploration that touches on physical design, economics, culture and sociology.Ħ Home: A Short History Of An Idea by Witold Rybczynski Chapter 10, pagers 216 - 232 Focused largely on Northern Europe in the 16th through 19th centuries because of the influence of that time and that place upon American domestic practices today. This book is essentially one long essay dedicated to opening up and trying to understand what is meant by the term ‘comfort’ as it relates to domestic environments in the Western world. His theme may have been light and how it creates livable space.Ĥ Paintings by Emanuel de Witte Choir of the New Church in Amsterdam, 1683 Interior of the Nieuwe Kerk, Amsterdam, 1657 Market in the Hague, 1660ĥ Home: A Short History Of An Idea by Witold Rybczynski De Witte's excellent sense of composition combined with his use of light created atmospheres which seem honest and real. He sometimes combined aspects of different churches to depict interiors of ideal churches, populating them with churchgoers, sometimes accompanied by a dog. After his move from Delft to Amsterdam in 1651 de Witte specialized more and more in representing church interiors, and he painted the old church in Amsterdam from almost every corner.

De Witte initially painted portraits as well as mythological and religious scenes. In contrast to Pieter Jansz Saenredam, who emphasized architectural accuracy, De Witte was more concerned with the atmosphere of his interiors. 1 Home: A Short History Of An Idea by Witold RybczynskiĢ Home: A Short History Of An Idea by Witold Rybczynski Painting on book cover: “Interior with a Woman Playing the Virginals”, circa 1660, Emanuel de Witteģ Emanuel de Witte Emanuel de Witte (1617–1692) was a Dutch perspective painter.

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