Rereading Rembrandt: how the slave trade helped establish the golden age of Dutch painting
In the 1600s the Netherlands established one of the world’s first art markets – but it couldn’t have happened without the ...
Scientists rediscover lost works of Apollonius in a 17th-century manuscript
The manuscript had been forgotten in the library, part of a collection acquired by Dutch Orientalist and mathematician Jacob ...
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Rereading Rembrandt: How The Slave Trade Helped Establish The Golden Age Of Dutch Painting
(MENAFN- The Conversation) The so-called golden age of Dutch painting in the 1600s coincided with an economic boom that had a lot to do with the transatlantic slave trade . But how did the slave ...