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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... Netherlandish art . In Bruegel's engraving of The Last Judgment , for example , the mouth of hell is depicted according to late medieval conventions as that of a great fish . In the famous early print done for Hieronymus Cock , Big Fish ...
... Netherlandish art . In Bruegel's engraving of The Last Judgment , for example , the mouth of hell is depicted according to late medieval conventions as that of a great fish . In the famous early print done for Hieronymus Cock , Big Fish ...
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... Netherlandish view of children ? First , although the Bruegel children , from their costume , are not literally miniaturized adults , the boundary between adult and childish behavior is made deliberately weak , to the point that some of ...
... Netherlandish view of children ? First , although the Bruegel children , from their costume , are not literally miniaturized adults , the boundary between adult and childish behavior is made deliberately weak , to the point that some of ...
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... Netherlandish culture , unified by language . See P. Geyl , Holland and elgium : Their Common History and Their Relations ( Leiden , 1920 ) . It was a position from which he never deviated throughout his career , reiterated as late as ...
... Netherlandish culture , unified by language . See P. Geyl , Holland and elgium : Their Common History and Their Relations ( Leiden , 1920 ) . It was a position from which he never deviated throughout his career , reiterated as late as ...
Inhoudsopgave
CHAPTER | 51 |
Scripture | 93 |
Stygian fires and aqua fortis | 188 |
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