Remembering Rembrandt

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Authors
Publication date 2024
Host editors
  • Emmeline Besamusca
  • Jaap Verheul
Book title Discovering the Dutch
Book subtitle On Culture and Society of the Netherlands
ISBN
  • 9789463725163
ISBN (electronic)
  • 9781003694090
  • 9781040781524
  • 9781040778135
Edition 3rd
Pages (from-to) 212-225, 376-377
Number of pages 16
Publisher Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press
Organisations
  • Faculty of Humanities (FGw) - Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research (AIHR) - Amsterdam School of Historical Studies (ASH)
Abstract In the Netherlands, the seventeenth century is always lurking round the corner. In Amsterdam, people shop at the P.C. Hooftstraat, grab a drink on Rembrandtplein, or take a stroll in Vondelpark. Great numbers of Dutch art lovers and tourists visit exhibitions on painters such as Johannes Vermeer and Frans Hals. These names, anchored in Dutch collective memory, refer to the seventeenth century. In the ubiquitous presence of the heroes of this past in Dutch daily life, the historic distance and vital differences between the seventeenth and twenty-first centuries vanish.
Document type Chapter
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003694090-18
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