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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Pagina 161
... sense of fragility with which this miraculous equilibrium is sustained . One ought not to press the analogy between the humanist's regard for balance with the painter's concern for aesthetic harmony too far . It has been said , with ...
... sense of fragility with which this miraculous equilibrium is sustained . One ought not to press the analogy between the humanist's regard for balance with the painter's concern for aesthetic harmony too far . It has been said , with ...
Pagina 162
... sense at all . As E. de Jongh has aptly put it , " Cheese was rarely consumed on an allegorical level in the ... senses of sight , touch and taste . The rich storehouse of Netherlandish proverbs , doggerel wisdoms and emblems had long. 84 ...
... sense at all . As E. de Jongh has aptly put it , " Cheese was rarely consumed on an allegorical level in the ... senses of sight , touch and taste . The rich storehouse of Netherlandish proverbs , doggerel wisdoms and emblems had long. 84 ...
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... senses resulted in a dispossession of Christian free will . Those who had squandered their free will were , by definition ... Sense " - so ran the epigraph to one of the cautionary tales published in the 1690s , and posthumously ( though ...
... senses resulted in a dispossession of Christian free will . Those who had squandered their free will were , by definition ... Sense " - so ran the epigraph to one of the cautionary tales published in the 1690s , and posthumously ( though ...
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