Pieter Post in 1651. Portrait by Pieter Nolpe, detail of a larger work Pieter Jansz Post (1 May 1608 – buried 8 May 1669) was a

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painter Painting is a Visual arts, visual art, which is characterized by the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called "matrix" or "Support (art), support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with ...

and

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Biography

Post was baptised in

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, the son of a

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painter and the older brother of painter Frans Post. He is credited with the creation of the ''Dutch

baroque The Baroque ( , , ) is a Western Style (visual arts), style of Baroque architecture, architecture, Baroque music, music, Baroque dance, dance, Baroque painting, painting, Baroque sculpture, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished from ...

'' style of architecture, along with his longtime collaborator Jacob van Campen. Together they designed the

Mauritshuis The Mauritshuis (, ; ) is an art museum in The Hague, Netherlands. The museum houses the Royal Cabinet of Paintings which consists of 854 objects, mostly Dutch Golden Age paintings. The collection contains works by Johannes Vermeer, Rembrandt van ...

in the Hague. According to Houbraken he was a famous architect who introduced his brother Frans to

Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange Maurice of Orange (; 14 November 1567 – 23 April 1625) was ''stadtholder'' of all the provinces of the Dutch Republic except for Lordship of Frisia, Friesland from 1585 at the earliest until his death on 23 April 1625. Before he became P ...

, while he was working on plans for the

.Pieter Post Biography
in ''De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen'' (1718) by

Arnold Houbraken Arnold Houbraken (28 March 1660 – 14 October 1719) was a Dutch people, Dutch Painting, painter and writer from Dordrecht, now remembered mainly as a biographer of Dutch Golden Age painters. Life Houbraken was sent first to learn ''threadt ...

, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature According to the RKD he became a member of the Haarlem Guild of St. Luke in 1623, and became painter and architect for Stadhouder Frederik Hendrik.Pieter Post
in the

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He was the overseer from 1640 for the new additions to Paleis Noordeinde in The Hague. From 1645 he was the architect for Frederik Hendrik for

Huis ten Bosch Huis ten Bosch (, ; ) is a royal palace in The Hague, Netherlands. It is one of three official residences of the Dutch monarch; the two others being the Noordeinde Palace in The Hague and the Royal Palace of Amsterdam. Huis ten Bosch was th ...

, where he worked together with Jacob van Campen. He died in

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, aged 61. His son Maurits became an architect, and his son Johan Post became a painter, and his daughter married the anatomist and collector Frederik Ruysch. His granddaughter

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became a famous flower painter.

Architectural work

*1642 Design Museum Dedel,

*1643 Huis Prinsessegracht 4 (the Hague) *1645-1650

(the Hague) *1645-1648 Gemeenlandshuis Zwanenburg,

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*1649-1653 Huis De Onbeschaamde,

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*1652-1657 Gebouw van de Staten van Holland, (the Hague) *1655 Johan de Witt Huis, (the Hague) *1657-1658 De Waag,

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*1659-1685 Maastricht City Hall,

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*1659-1662 Kruithuis,

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*1660 Hofje van Nieuwkoop (Den Haag), *1661-1662 Torendeel van Lambertuskerk in Buren *1662-1665

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*1662-1680 Hervormde Kerk, Bennebroek *1663 Kerk van Stompetoren *1667 Oostkerk, Middelburg,

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*1668- Kaaswaag, Gouda

Gallery

File:Huis ten Bosch.jpg,

(the Hague), built 1645-1650 File:Den_Haag,_Mauritshuis_vanaf_Hofvijver_2006-05-29_16.12.JPG, Mauritshuis (The Hague) File:Waag Leiden.jpg, De Waag Leiden File:Gouda waaggebouw februari 2003.jpg, Kaaswaag Gouda File:Den Haag - Prinsegracht 15.JPG, Dedel House (Huis Dedel) at Prinsegracht 15 in The Hague File:Huis Zwanenburg te Halfweg 20090927.jpg, Gemeenlandshuis Zwanenburg, former seat of the '' Hoogheemraadschap van Rijnland'' waterboard, in

File:Hofje van Nieuwkoop 002.jpg, Hofje van Nieuwkoop (Den Haag) File:Bennebroek-hervormde kerk.jpg, Dutch Reformed church of Bennebroek, which was finished posthumously in 1680. Image:DelftscheZwervers.jpg, One of the "towers" of the "Kruithuis" in Delft File:Maastricht 2010-30-03 – Stadthaus am Markt - panoramio (cropped).jpg,

city hall, considered Post's most accomplished work. After a drawing by Pieter Post

References

External links

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