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7 unusual facts about Dutch Golden Age

Alfred Hirv

His paintings are reminiscent of the style of the Dutch Golden Age.

Phillips suggests that American greatness in the 20th century was built on oil, much as British greatness in the 19th century was built on coal, and Dutch greatness before that was built on wind and water power.

Govert Bidloo

Govert Bidloo or Govard Bidloo (12 March 1649 – 30 March 1713) was a Dutch Golden Age physician, anatomist, poet and playwright.

Laura Theresa Alma-Tadema

She specialised in highly sentimental domestic and genre scenes of women and children, often in Dutch 17th-century settings and style, like Love's Beginning, Hush-a-bye, The Carol, At the Doorway (c.1898, shown right) and Sunshine.

The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age

Historians in the US and in the Netherlands agreed the book was erudite and offered many fresh insights due to its 360-degree approach to the whole period of the Dutch Golden Age, which Schama defines as being from 1570-1670.

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In his attempt to make a systematic overview of the Dutch Golden Age culture, Schama cites an eclectic list of period source materials from all over the world, including emblem books, period histories and novels, cookbooks, scientific discoveries, bankruptcy files, religious works, and period art including prints, paintings, sculpture, architecture and stained glass windows.

Tulipa gesneriana

When the tulip originally arrived in Europe from the Ottoman Empire, its popularity soared quickly and it quickly became a status symbol for the newly wealthy merchants of the Dutch Golden Age.

Dutch people

This, together with the growing number of Dutch intelligentsia and the Dutch Golden Age in which Dutch culture, as a whole, would get international prestige, consolidated the Dutch as an ethnic group.