The Dutch Golden Age
Seventeenth-century Dutch painting from republican trade and Calvinist homes to specialised genres, four close readings, and afterlife.
Haarlem banquets, Delft harbours, and Amsterdam militia halls show how Dutch Golden Age painting sold specialised genres to a merchant republic. Trace the market conditions, hallmarks, key painters, four landmark works read closely, later criticism, and why the “golden” label now draws museum debate.