TheDelft school is a category of mid-17th-centuryDutch Golden Age painting based in the city ofDelft. Its artists favoured images of domestic life, views of households, church interiors, courtyards, squares and the streets of the city. The movement began withCarel Fabritius andNicolaes Maes in the 1640s followed a decade later byPieter de Hooch andJohannes Vermeer, who is the best known of these painters today. The architectural interiors ofGerard Houckgeest,Emanuel de Witte andHendrick Cornelisz. van Vliet are also notable. Delft painters also producedstill life andhistory paintings, portraits for patrons and the court, and decorative pieces of art that reflect more general tendencies in Dutch art of the period.
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