Daily Life in Rembrandt's Holland - Paperback

by Paul Zumthor (Author)

This engagingly written study presents a rich picture of a dynamic society that had torn itself away from the mediocrity of its past-a stagnant nation of peasants and fishermen-to pursue an overseas empire that led to great financial wealth and a highly sophisticated cultivation of the arts. This classic work first appeared in English translation in 1963.

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This engagingly written study presents a rich picture of dynamic society that had torn itself away from the mediocrity of its past- a stagnant nation of peasants and fisherman- to pursue an overseas empire that led to great financial wealth and a highly sophisticated cultivation of the arts.