The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden AgeKnopf, 1987 - 698 pagina's Schama explores the mysterious contradictions of the Dutch nation that invented itself from the ground up, attained an unprecedented level of affluence, and lived in constant dread of being corrupted by happiness. Drawing on a vast array of period documents and sumptuously reproduced art, Schama re-creates in precise detail a nation's mental state. He tells of bloody uprisings and beached whales, of the cult of hygiene and the plague of tobacco, of thrifty housewives and profligate tulip-speculators. He tells us how the Dutch celebrated themselves and how they were slandered by their enemies. "History on the grand scale...An ambitious portrait of one of the most remarkable episodes in modern history."--New York Times "Wonderfully inclusive; with wit and intense curiosity he teases out meaning from every aspect of Dutch seventeenth-century life."--Robert Hughes |
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... Haarlem between 1580 and the 1620s . The group of Mannerists that gathered in that city around the brilliant figures of Goltzius , Cornelis van Haarlem and Karel van Mander had a distinctively southern bias , and in their choice of ...
... Haarlem between 1580 and the 1620s . The group of Mannerists that gathered in that city around the brilliant figures of Goltzius , Cornelis van Haarlem and Karel van Mander had a distinctively southern bias , and in their choice of ...
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... Haarlem , it was the provoost , or second - in - command , who had the privilege of the knife ; in the company of St ... Haarlem , 1616 . Frans Hals Museum , Haarlem Other rituals , such as the plan of seating and. 180 THE EMBARRASSMENT ...
... Haarlem , it was the provoost , or second - in - command , who had the privilege of the knife ; in the company of St ... Haarlem , 1616 . Frans Hals Museum , Haarlem Other rituals , such as the plan of seating and. 180 THE EMBARRASSMENT ...
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... Haarlem Ampzing , Samuel . Beschryving ende Lof der Stad Haarlem in Holland . Haarlem , 1628 . Leiden Van Hout , Jan. Der stadt Leiden dienst - bou . Leiden , 1602 . Orlers , Jan Jansz . Beschriving der Stadt Leyden . Leiden , 1641 ...
... Haarlem Ampzing , Samuel . Beschryving ende Lof der Stad Haarlem in Holland . Haarlem , 1628 . Leiden Van Hout , Jan. Der stadt Leiden dienst - bou . Leiden , 1602 . Orlers , Jan Jansz . Beschriving der Stadt Leyden . Leiden , 1641 ...
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CHAPTER | 51 |
Scripture | 93 |
Stygian fires and aqua fortis | 188 |
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