This collection of essays by international scholars focuses on the vernacular urban culture of the Chambers of Rhetoric in the Low Countries of the 15th and 16th centuries. The volume sets the Rhetoricians' drama in the cultural life of the provinces during a period dominated by…
This collection of essays by international scholars focuses on the vernacular urban culture of the Chambers of Rhetoric in the Low Countries of the 15th and 16th centuries. The volume sets the Rhetoricians' drama in the cultural life of the provinces during a period dominated by…
Pt. 1. Development of the VOC shipping network in Asia -- pt. 2. The shipping and ships in numbers.
During the closing years of the sixteenth century, the Dutch East India Company fast became a political and economic force in Asia, en route to becoming the leading private company in the world by 1660. This definitive volume explores perhaps the most important tool in the compa…
"For more than a century, from about 1600 until the early eighteenth century, the Dutch dominated world trade. Via the Netherlands the far reaches of the world, both in the Atlantic and in the East, were connected. Dutch ships carried goods, but they also opened up opportunities…
Analyses the scholarly formation of the corpus of Rembrandt paintings in the late 19th-Century.
De schilderijen van de Nederlandse kunstenaar Albert Eckhout zijn onlangs getoond op diverse internationale tentoonstellingen in Denemarken, Brazilië en Nederland. Echter, de meest recente monografie van deze kunstenaar, die tijdens de periode dat Brazilië gekoloniseerd was door…