Tag Archives: Frans Hals

golden age : reveling in “glorious simplicity”

The Golden Age of the Dutch was the era of Jan de Witt. The Dutch bested the great powers of the world in the arts and science before the reactionary House of Orange put him to death, which marked the … Continue reading

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ORANGE LIGHT DISTRICT

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

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