The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden AgeCollins, 1987 - 698 pagina's This text explores the enigma of 17th-century Holland, a nation that attained an unprecedented level of affluence, yet lived in constant dread of being corrupted by prosperity. |
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... Manner of the Country . ” S. o wrote the traveler Peter Mundy of his stay in Holland in 1640. I must plead the same excuse but with less exoneration . His account ran to twenty pages , mine to somewhat more . I had not meant the shape ...
... Manner of the Country . ” S. o wrote the traveler Peter Mundy of his stay in Holland in 1640. I must plead the same excuse but with less exoneration . His account ran to twenty pages , mine to somewhat more . I had not meant the shape ...
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... manner of an unofficial Académie royale ) , committed to scouring the language of vulgar impurities and collo ... manners . And since the period from 1690 to 1740 was also a time in which access to the patrician circles seems to have ...
... manner of an unofficial Académie royale ) , committed to scouring the language of vulgar impurities and collo ... manners . And since the period from 1690 to 1740 was also a time in which access to the patrician circles seems to have ...
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... manner - fetched only one guilder , and a townscape two . An average price for a small landscape seems to have run between three and four guilders , and the same was true for a seascape ( other than the grandiose battle pictures ) ...
... manner - fetched only one guilder , and a townscape two . An average price for a small landscape seems to have run between three and four guilders , and the same was true for a seascape ( other than the grandiose battle pictures ) ...
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