1. Seventeenth Century Dutch Art - Vermeer, De Hoogh
... work, even if their principal patrons were no longer the small aristocratic class and the much-reduced Roman Catholic Church in this now official Protestant land. (The Cambridge Companion to Vermeer p. 1) The development of a bourgeois economy and a free-commercial art market resulted in a significant change in the kind of art produced. For the first time artists were able to support themselves ... artists in earlier decades gradually began to decline in popularity in favour of more tempered and often more wholesome subjects featuring elegantly attired figures engaged in a wide variety ...
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