page_title: Jan Baptist van der Straeten
section_title: Work
hierarchical_section_title: Jan Baptist van der Straeten / Work
context_page_description: Jan Baptist van der Straeten was a Flemish painter who specialized in architectural paintings depicting gallant companies amidst imaginary Renaissance and Baroque palaces and buildings.
context_section_description: Jan Baptist van der Straeten was a specialist architectural painter who created scenes with imaginary buildings and staffage referred to as capriccios.  His architectural fantasies depict opulent palaces amidst terraces, gardens and fountains with a typical Baroque love of exaggeration.  The figural groups of elegant figures populating the scenes were painted usually by the Antwerp artist Balthasar van den Bossche.
  Van der Straeten favoured a brown palette over bright colours thus giving atmospheric coherence to his compositions.  The Flemish architectural painters of his time such as Wilhelm Schubert van  Ehrenberg, Jacobus Ferdinandus Saey and Jacob Balthasar Peeters had been influenced by Italian painters, in particular of Viviano Codazzi, who was a well-known capriccio painter
caption: Renaissance palace near a river with many figures
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