Tag: Egbert van der Poel
The assassin waits
![The assassin waits The assassin waits](http://i0.wp.com/gwallter.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/stairway-1.jpg?resize=300%2C200&ssl=1)
In my lockdown tour of Europe I’m still enjoying my virtual stay in the city of Delft. I’ve walked a little way from the Nieuwe Kerk to the Prinsenhof in Sint Agathaplein. Today the Prinsenhof is a museum, and a very good one, but in the late sixteenth century it was the government headquarters of […]
Carel Fabritius’s ‘A view of Delft’
![Carel Fabritius’s ‘A view of Delft’ Carel Fabritius’s ‘A view of Delft’](http://i0.wp.com/gwallter.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/fabritius-3.jpg?resize=300%2C200&ssl=1)
You can take a train to Delft – or you could, in pre-Virus times – walk to the corner of Oude Langendijk and the Oosteinde in the city centre, look to the north-west, and see what the painter Carel Fabritius saw there on a bright summer’s day in 1652. A few things have changed, it’s […]