Tag Archives: Dutch Golden Age

just before the dross

Posted on March 26, 2012 by Dave

The Golden for gthe Dutch turned to dross. Jan de Witt and his brother met an inglorious end: Cornelius was thrown down the stairs of his prsion room and beaten with clubs and stabbed with pikes. Jan was beaten and … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Baruch Spinoza, Dutch Golden Age, Jan de Witt, Jan Miense Molenaer, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Pieter de Hooch | Leave a comment

ORANGE LIGHT DISTRICT

Posted on September 9, 2010 by Dave

On a narrow, low lying strip of coastal country in Northern Europe, scarcely two hundred miles long, a country so water logged that enemies and rivals spoke of it as mud flat, there arose in the seventeenth century one of … Continue reading →