What is ment by the Dutch Golden Age?
Fredom in art
Painters looked wider than church stories to paint
Very popular
Their art was even transported to foriegn countries
Only a few became really famous:
Adriaen van Ostaden
Albert Cuyp
Vermeer
Frans Hals
Lot's of artists
Price went down
They specialiced in:
flower pieces
still lifes
Portraits
Ohter pictures of ships and the sea
Views of Dutch towns
Landscapes
Dutch art has it own way
Taste of art was not efected on taste of the:
Church
Calvanists idn't allow paintings in the church
Nobles
Kings
Everybody had paintings in his/her house
VOC and WIC
Holland became the largest importer and distriboter of the World
WIC had all Dutch trade in America
less successful
Sugar
Colonies in:
North America
The Caribean Islands
Guyana
Brazil
Huge profit
Other spices
Salt
Pepper
VOC had all Dutch trade in the East
Had wars with rivals
Created an empire of islands
Founded Jakarta
Made trading posts in the East
Merchants worked together
Created in 1602
Lots of dangours
Lack of food
Diseases
War enemies
Pirates
Dutch merchant went to India, the Far East and America
