Pieterskerk

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The pulpit was designed in 1532 by Pieter Cornelisz. Kunst, a painter who was the son of the painter Cornelis Engebrechtsz. While the main part of the pulpit follows a tradition already established in pulpits elsewhere (The Hague and Haarlem), the canopy above it displays fully developed Renaissance ornament of a sort that barely intrudes in the gothic design of the pulpit drum. Such mixed ornamental language was common around 1530. The builder was the cabinetmaker Daniel Willemsz. The two 16th-century sections are separated by an immense sounding board added in 1604 by the cabinetmaker Dirck Cornelisz.

More information is found in: "Pieter Cornelisz. Kunst and the Pieterskerk Pulpit," in J. D. Bangs, Cornelis Engebrechtsz.'s Leiden, Studies in Cultural History (Assen: Van Gorcum, 1979); and Bangs, "Pulpits," in Church Art and Architecture in the Low Countries before 1566.