Food, drink, reading books and raising children – everyday life in the 1600s is the focus of perhaps the biggest exhibition ...

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Portrait of a Dutch Family, mid-1630s, Frans Hals. Oil on canvas. (Cincinnati Art Museum) In his vivid 17th-century portraits, family members loll, laugh, and have a great time together.

The book, celebrated at a recent launch at the Arts & Letters Club of Toronto, is a collection of sonnets – traditionally a 14-line poem that follows one of several specific rhyme schemes – inspired ...