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Author : Esmée Quodbach
Publisher : Penn State University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 21,51 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
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Essays by American and Dutch scholars and museum curators explore the collecting and reception of seventeenth-century Dutch painting in America, from the colonial era through the Gilded Age to today.
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 22,57 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Painting, Dutch
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Author : Arie Theodorus Deursen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 33,7 MB
Release : 1991-08-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521367851
This is an account of the ordinary working people of Holland in the seventeenth-century, the so-called 'golden age'.
Author : Anne Goldgar
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 49,18 MB
Release : 2008-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0226301303
In the 1630s the Netherlands was gripped by tulipmania: a speculative fever unprecedented in scale and, as popular history would have it, folly. We all know the outline of the story—how otherwise sensible merchants, nobles, and artisans spent all they had (and much that they didn’t) on tulip bulbs. We have heard how these bulbs changed hands hundreds of times in a single day, and how some bulbs, sold and resold for thousands of guilders, never even existed. Tulipmania is seen as an example of the gullibility of crowds and the dangers of financial speculation. But it wasn’t like that. As Anne Goldgar reveals in Tulipmania, not one of these stories is true. Making use of extensive archival research, she lays waste to the legends, revealing that while the 1630s did see a speculative bubble in tulip prices, neither the height of the bubble nor its bursting were anywhere near as dramatic as we tend to think. By clearing away the accumulated myths, Goldgar is able to show us instead the far more interesting reality: the ways in which tulipmania reflected deep anxieties about the transformation of Dutch society in the Golden Age. “Goldgar tells us at the start of her excellent debunking book: ‘Most of what we have heard of [tulipmania] is not true.’. . . She tells a new story.”—Simon Kuper, Financial Times
Author : James C. Kennedy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 31,17 MB
Release : 2017-07-13
Category : History
ISBN : 0521875889
This book offers a comprehensive yet compact history of this surprisingly little-known but fascinating country, from pre-history to the present.
Author : Jan W. J. Burgers
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 21,18 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Lute
ISBN : 9789089645524
Closely associated with the social elite, the lute occupied a central place in the culture of the Dutch Golden Age. In this first comprehensive study of the instrument's role in seventeenth-century Netherlands, Jan W. J. Burgers explores how it functioned as the universal means of solo music making, group performance, and accompaniment. He showcases famous and obscure musicians; lute music in books and manuscripts; lute makers and the international lute trade; and the instrument's place in Dutch literature and art of the period. Enhanced by beautiful illustrations, this study constitutes an important contribution to our knowledge about the lute and its Golden Age heyday.
Author : Helmer J. Helmers
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : pages
File Size : 13,82 MB
Release : 2018-08-31
Category : History
ISBN : 1316780325
During the seventeenth century, the Dutch Republic was transformed into a leading political power in Europe, with global trading interests. It nurtured some of the period's greatest luminaries, including Rembrandt, Vermeer, Descartes and Spinoza. Long celebrated for its religious tolerance, artistic innovation and economic modernity, the United Provinces of the Netherlands also became known for their involvement with slavery and military repression in Asia, Africa, and the Americas. This Companion provides a compelling overview of the best scholarship on this much debated era, written by a wide range of experts in the field. Unique in its balanced treatment of global, political, socio-economic, literary, artistic, religious, and intellectual history, its nineteen chapters offer an indispensable guide for anyone interested in the world of the Dutch Golden Age.
Author : National Gallery of Art (U.S.)
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 22,17 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Painting
ISBN : 9780894682117
Heda's Banquet Piece, Frans Hals' Willem Coymans, and Rembrandt's Lucretia. Paintings by these and other masters attracted the American collectors P. A. B. Widener, his son Joseph, and Andrew W. Mellon, whose bequests form the heart of the National Gallery's distinguished and remarkably cohesive collection of ninety-one Dutch paintings.
Author : Dagomar Degroot
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 45,34 MB
Release : 2018-02-08
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1108317588
Dagomar Degroot offers the first detailed analysis of how a society thrived amid the Little Ice Age, a period of climatic cooling that reached its chilliest point between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. The precocious economy, unusual environment, and dynamic intellectual culture of the Dutch Republic in its seventeenth-century Golden Age allowed it to thrive as neighboring societies unraveled in the face of extremes in temperature and precipitation. By tracing the occasionally counterintuitive manifestations of climate change from global to local scales, Degroot finds that the Little Ice Age presented not only challenges for Dutch citizens but also opportunities that they aggressively exploited in conducting commerce, waging war, and creating culture. The overall success of their Republic in coping with climate change offers lessons that we would be wise to heed today, as we confront the growing crisis of global warming.
Author : Maarten Prak
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 35,65 MB
Release : 2023-01-19
Category : History
ISBN : 1009240609
Rembrandt, Hals and Vermeer are still household names, even though they died over three hundred years ago. In their lifetimes they witnessed the extraordinary consolidation of the newly independent Dutch Republic and its emergence as one of the richest nations on earth. As one contemporary wrote in 1673: the Dutch were 'the envy of some, the fear of others, and the wonder of all their neighbours'. During the Dutch Golden Age, the arts blossomed and the country became a haven of religious tolerance. However, despite being self-proclaimed champions of freedom, the Dutch conquered communities in America, Africa and Asia and were heavily involved in both slavery and the slave trade on three continents. This substantially revised second edition of the leading textbook on the Dutch Republic includes a new chapter exploring slavery and its legacy, as well as a new chapter on language and literature.