Seventeenth Century Dutch Art - Vermeer, De Hoogh

In the Sixteenth century in Holland, the reformation of the church saw a revolutionary change in the depiction of women in painting. It saw the departure from the ethereal and

The territory of the household and family is the subject of much artwork in seventeenth century Dutch genre art. Maes discusses the relationship between mistress/housewife and maid: As mistress is to maid, so wife is to mistress. He investigates this doubled or split persona of a woman in a series of distinctive paintings featuring divided domestic interiors with the housewife situated between the flirtatious maid down (S. Alpers Dutch Art Ways of seeing first page of the photocopied)

The economy’s impact on the heavily urbanized Dutch society, one in which wealth was dispersed far down the social ladder as evidenced, for example, by the country’s huge and thriving middle class. The robust Dutch economy and prosperous citizenry provided an extremely favourable environment in which artists could work, even if their principa

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