Dutch Culture In The Golden Age

Author : J. L. Price
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781861899910

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Dutch Culture in the Golden Age by J. L. Price Pdf

The seventeenth century is considered the Dutch Golden Age, a time when the Dutch were at the forefront of social change, economics, the sciences, and art. In Dutch Culture in the Golden Age, eminent historian J. L. Price goes beyond the standard descriptions of the cultural achievements of the Dutch during this time by placing these many achievements within their social context. Price’s central argument is that alongside the innovative tendencies in Dutch society and culture there were powerful conservative and reactionary forces at work—and that it was the tension between these contradictory impulses that gave the period its unique and powerful dynamic. Dutch Culture in the Golden Age is distinctive in its broad scope, examing art, literature, religion, political ideology, theology, and scientific and intellectual trends, while also attending to the high and popular culture of the times. Price’s new interpretation of Dutch history places an emphasis on the paradox of the Dutch resistance to change as well as their general acceptance of innovation. This comprehensive look at the Dutch Golden Age provides a fascinating new way to understand Dutch culture at the height of its historic and global influence.

Author : Arthur K. Wheelock (Jr.),Arthur K. Wheelock,Adele F. Seeff
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Art and society
ISBN : 9780874136401

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The Public and Private in Dutch Culture of the Golden Age by Arthur K. Wheelock (Jr.),Arthur K. Wheelock,Adele F. Seeff Pdf

This volume of essays derives from a memorable interdisciplinary symposium. At issue were various fundamental questions about the nature of Dutch sixteenth-and seventeenth-century society that fall under three broad categories: civic culture, art, and religion. The fourteen papers presented in this volume offer a number of fascinating insights into these and other questions that, taken together, greatly enrich our perception and understanding of this rich and varied society.

Author : Simon Schama
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 724 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0520061470

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The Embarrassment of Riches by Simon Schama Pdf

In a brilliantly inventive work, bestselling author Simon Schama 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. Drawing on a vast array of period documents and sumptuously reproduced art, THE EMBARRASSMENT OF RICHES throbs with life on every page. 314 photos & illustrations. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Author : Jan Blanc
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-15
Category : Arts, Dutch
ISBN : 2503591078

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Dutch Golden Age(s) by Jan Blanc Pdf

This volume critically (re-)examines the key building blocks of the construct of the Dutch Golden Age, their origins, the numerous and diverse purposes they have served and their long-lasting cultural and historiographical impact. For a long time, the Dutch Golden Age has been regarded as a historiographical construction or reconstruction dating from the second half of the nineteenth century, when the rise of nationalist and even racialist histories and art histories was intended to promote the principle of a Dutch cultural identity, visible and analysable beyond the vicissitudes of time. This volume shows how the notion of the 'Golden Age', built on the ancient notion of aetas aurea, was constructed by the Dutch and for the Dutch, at the end of the sixteenth century, first to try to justify the theoretically questionable revolt of the Northern Netherlands against Spanish rule, and then to give shape to the new state and the new society created. However, we will see that there is not one but several possible definitions of this Golden Age, and consequently that it cannot be confined to one conception, so that it would be preferable to speak of a multitude of Dutch Golden Ages.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2010-10-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004186712

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Reading the Book of Nature in the Dutch Golden Age, 1575-1715 by Anonim Pdf

The conviction that Nature was God's second revelation played a crucial role in early modern Dutch culture. This book offers a fascinating account on how Dutch intellectuals contemplated, investigated, represented and collected natural objects, and how the notion of the 'Book of Nature' was transformed.

Author : Helmer J. Helmers,Geert H. Janssen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107172265

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The Cambridge Companion to the Dutch Golden Age by Helmer J. Helmers,Geert H. Janssen Pdf

An accessible introduction to the political, economic, literary, and artistic heritage of the Dutch Republic in the seventeenth century.

Author : Rijksmuseum (Netherlands)
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300212877

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Asia in Amsterdam by Rijksmuseum (Netherlands) Pdf

Discusses the Asian luxury goods that were imported into the Netherlands during the 17th century and demonstrates the overwhelming impact these works of art had on Dutch life and art during the Golden Age

Author : Lisa Jardine
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781910634035

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Temptation in the Archives by Lisa Jardine Pdf

Temptation in the Archives is a collection of essays by Lisa Jardine, that takes readers on a journey through the Dutch Golden Age. Through the study of such key figures as Sir Constantjin Huygens, a Dutch polymath and diplomat, we begin to see the Anglo-Dutch cultural connections that formed during this period against the backdrop of unfolding political events in England.Temptation in the Archives paints a picture of a unique relationship between the Netherlands and England in the 17th century forged through a shared experience – and reveals the lessons we can learn from it today.

Author : Martha Moffitt Peacock
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-16
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789004432154

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Heroines, Harpies, and Housewives by Martha Moffitt Peacock Pdf

A novel and female empowering interpretive approach to these artistic archetypes in her analysis of Imaging Women of Consequence in the Dutch Golden Age.

Author : Simon Schama
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 698 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:490107934

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The Embarrassment of Riches by Simon Schama Pdf

Author : Jan W. J. Burgers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Lute
ISBN : 9089645527

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The Lute in the Dutch Golden Age by Jan W. J. Burgers Pdf

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 : Lisa Jardine
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781910634028

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Temptation in the Archives by Lisa Jardine Pdf

Temptation in the Archives is a collection of essays by Lisa Jardine, that takes readers on a journey through the Dutch Golden Age. Through the study of such key figures as Sir Constantjin Huygens, a Dutch polymath and diplomat, we begin to see the Anglo-Dutch cultural connections that formed during this period against the backdrop of unfolding political events in England.Temptation in the Archives paints a picture of a unique relationship between the Netherlands and England in the 17th century forged through a shared experience – and reveals the lessons we can learn from it today.

Author : Arthur Weststeijn
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011-12-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004221406

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Commercial Republicanism in the Dutch Golden Age by Arthur Weststeijn Pdf

This book is the first comprehensive study of the radical political thought of the brothers Johan and Pieter de la Court, two eminent theorists from the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic who played a pivotal role in the rise of commercial republicanism.

Author : Michael North,Catherine Hill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1999-09-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0300081316

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Art and Commerce in the Dutch Golden Age by Michael North,Catherine Hill Pdf

In this book Michael North examines the Dutch Golden Age, when the Netherlands boasted Europe's greatest number of cities & its highest literacy rate, with unusually large numbers of publicly & privately owned art works, religious tolerance, etc.

Author : Anne Goldgar
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2008-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226301303

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Tulipmania by Anne Goldgar Pdf

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