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DUTCH FREEDOMThe Dutch succeeded in securing their independence from the Spanish in the late sixteenth century. Not until 1648, however, after years of continual border skirmishes with the Spanish were the northern Netherlands officially recognized as the United Provinces of the Netherlands ( The Dutch Republic ).

DUTCH MONEYAmsterdam had the highest per capita income in Europe. That city emerged as the financial center of Europe, having founded the Bank of Amsterdam in 1609.

DUTCH GOVERNMENTDue to this prosperity and the absence of an absolute ruler, political power increasingly passed into the hands of an urban patrician class of merchants and manufacturers, especially in cities such as Amsterdam, Haarlem, and Delft. That these bustling cities were all located in Holland ( the largest of the seven United Provinces ) perhaps explains why the name “Holland” is used informally to refer to the entire country.

DUTCH RELIGIONWhile Spain and the southern Netherlands were Catholic, the northern Netherlands were predominantly Protestant. The prevailing Calvinism demanded a puritanical rejection of art in churches, and thus artists produced relatively little religious art in the Dutch Republic at this time (especially when compared to areas dominated by Catholicism in the wake of the Counter- Reformation.)

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Plebian Portraits

Genre Paintings

0Landscapes

Still Lifes

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Frans Hals

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Frans Hals, Banquet of the Officers ofthe St George Militia Company, 1616.

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Frans Hals. Officers and Sergeants of the St Hadrian Civic Guard. c. 1633.

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Frans Hals. The Governors Of The Old Mena Almhouse At Haarlem, 1664.

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Frans HalsBuffoon (Jester) Playing

A Lute1623

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Frans HalsThe Laughing Cavalier

1624

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Frans HalsThe Laughing Child

1620-1625

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Frans HalsThe Jolly Toper

(or The Merry Drinker)1628-1630

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Frans HalsLute Player WithWine Glass1626.

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Frans HalsPortrait of Rene Descartres

c1649.

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Rembrandt van RijnSelf-Portrait1660

DUTCH BAROQUERembrandt van Rijn, Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp, 1632.

DUTCH BAROQUE Rembrandt van Rijn, The Nightwatch, 1642.

The Militia Company of Captain Frans Banning Cocq is more commonly known as Night Watch. This common title is , however, as a misnomer- Night Watch is not a nocturnal scene.

Not your typical group portrait…

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Rembrandt van Rijn, The Syndics of the Clothmaker's Guild (The Staalmeesters) 1662.

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Judith LeysterSelf-Portrait1630

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Judith LeysterA Boy and a Girl with a Cat and an Eelc1635

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Judith LeysterMan Offering A Woman Money1631

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Judith LeysterBoy Playing a Flute

1630

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Jan SteenThe Feast of St. Nicholasc. 1660-65Oil on canvas.

DUTCH BAROQUE Jan Steen, The Bean Feast, 1668.

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Jan VermeerThe LaceMaker1665-1670

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Jan VermeerAllegory of the Art of Painting1670

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Jan VermeerThe Letter1630

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Jan VermeerThe Music Lesson

1662-1665

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Jan VermeerYoung Woman with

a Water Pitcherc1665

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Jan VermeerThe Guitar Player

1670

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Jan VermeerThe Kitchenmaidc1658

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Jan VermeerGirl With a Pearl Earring

1665

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Willem Claez Heda, Still Life with Oysters, c. 1640s

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Pieter Claesz, Still Life with a Skull and a Writing Quill, 1628.

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Willem Claez Heda, Still Life with Tobacco, Wine and Pocket Watch , 1637.

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Willem Claez HedaBanquet Piece with Mince Pie, 1635 .

DUTCH BAROQUE Jan van Goyen, View of Dordrecht from the Dordtse Kil, 1644.

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Salomon van Ruisdael, View of Deventer Seen from the North-West, 1657.

DUTCH BAROQUE Jan Vermeer, View of Delft, c1661.

DUTCH BAROQUE Jakob Ruisdael, Landscape With Church and Village, 1665-70.

DUTCH BAROQUE Jacob van Ruisdael, Windmill at Wijk-bij-Duurst-ede, c1665.