Rarities of These Lands - Swan, Claudia
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"The early years of the seventeenth century saw a great flourishing of Dutch culture. In the arts, this was the era of Vermeer and Rembrandt, as well as the development of a local art market. Commerce extended around the world, with state-sponsored trading companies importing foreign goods. Politically, the Netherlands became the first nation-state in Europe, in 1648. In this book, Claudia Swan considers all these aspects together, examining the material culture of the period-the designed, manufactured, and hand-crafted materials and wares-to show how the Dutch encounter with so-called…mehr

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"The early years of the seventeenth century saw a great flourishing of Dutch culture. In the arts, this was the era of Vermeer and Rembrandt, as well as the development of a local art market. Commerce extended around the world, with state-sponsored trading companies importing foreign goods. Politically, the Netherlands became the first nation-state in Europe, in 1648. In this book, Claudia Swan considers all these aspects together, examining the material culture of the period-the designed, manufactured, and hand-crafted materials and wares-to show how the Dutch encounter with so-called "exotic" goods played a fundamental role in the country's political formation"--
Autorenporträt
Claudia Swan is the Mark S. Weil Professor of Early Modern Art in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Washington University in St. Louis. She is the author of Art, Science, and Witchcraft in Early Modern Holland: Jacques de Gheyn II (1565–1629) and The Clutius Botanical Watercolors: Plants and Flowers of the Renaissance. Twitter @raritiesof