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| Gerard Houckgeest Interior of the Oude Kerk at Delft 1654 oil on panel Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Cornelis de Man Interior of the Oude Kerk at Delft ca. 1660-70 oil on canvas private collection |
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| Hendrik Cornelisz van Vliet Interior of the Oude Kerk at Delft 1661 oil on canvas Städel Museum, Frankfurt |
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| Emanuel de Witte Interior of the Oude Kerk at Delft 1651 oil on panel Wallace Collection, London |
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| Hendrik Cornelisz van Vliet Interior of the Nieuwe Kerk at Delft with the Tomb of William the Silent and a freshly-dug Grave ca. 1650-60 oil on canvas Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna |
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| Hendrik Cornelisz van Vliet Interior of the Nieuwe Kerk at Delft with the Tomb of William the Silent and a freshly-dug Grave 1667 oil on canvas Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool |
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| Cornelis de Man Interior of the Nieuwe Kerk at Delft with the Tomb of William the Silent and a freshly-dug Grave ca. 1660-70 oil on canvas Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky |
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| Gerard Houckgeest Interior of the Nieuwe Kerk at Delft with the Tomb of William the Silent 1651 oil on panel Mauritshuis, The Hague |
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| Gerard Houckgeest Interior of the Nieuwe Kerk at Delft with the Tomb of William the Silent 1651 oil on panel Mauritshuis, The Hague |
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| Hendrik Cornelisz van Vliet Interior of a Church with a freshly-dug Grave before 1675 oil on canvas private collection |
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| Bartholomeus van Bassen Interior of St Cunerakerk at Rhenen 1638 oil on panel National Gallery, London |
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| Pieter Saenredam Interior of the Janskerk at Utrecht ca. 1650 oil on panel Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam |
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| Pieter Saenredam Interior of the Sint Laurenskerk at Alkmaar 1661 oil on panel Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam |
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| Pieter Saenredam Interior of the Grote Kerk at Haarlem 1636-37 oil on panel National Gallery, London |
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| Gesina ter Borch Young Woman standing with Death at a freshly dug grave in St Michael's Church ca. 1671 watercolor Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
"In her important new book [The Wake of Iconoclasm: Painting the Church in the Dutch Republic, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2014], Angela Vanhaelen argues that seventeenth-century Dutch church interior paintings address a particular moment in history – one of transition – in which the Dutch attempted to resolve the tension between their former and current religious affiliations through various means of repressing, repudiating, or reconciling with the past. She treats images by Pieter Saenredam, Emanuel de Witte, and others depicting formerly Catholic churches recently co-opted for Calvinist worship as meta-works of art that both confront and critique the Catholic history of their subjects and interrogate Dutch Calvinist identity. By assessing these images in light of the multi-confessional religious climate of the Dutch Republic, she establishes the seemingly self-evident but remarkably underappreciated idea that, as representations of church interiors, these paintings concern religion. . . . For Vanhaelen, however, church interior paintings are, in a sense, palimpsests: they employ the opacity of paint to establish a material present that denies a spiritual past in a manner analogous to the whitewashed walls of the physical churches."
– Sara Bordeaux, from a review published online in Historians of Netherlandish Art Reviews