Hamilton after Venturi Scott Brown and Saenredam
There is a very small room in the National Gallery that contains a selection of Flemish architectural paintings. There is something surprisingly domestic about Pieter Saenredam’s interior painting of the Grote Kirk at Haarlem. A small dog is looking for attention adjacent to a seated woman with basket and pot. Fifty meters to the west of this room one arrives at the top of the long processional staircase that leads to the galleries of Venturi Scott Brown’s Sainsbury’s Wing. H
