Newly independent from the Spanish Empire, and dominant in global trade from Japan to the Americas, the Dutch had a lot of money to spend, not only on fine food, drink, tobacco, clothing and luxury ...
“Dutch Art in a Global Age,” combines an impressive ... help contextualize the global influence of the Netherlands in the 1600s. “With trade networks that stretch from Asia to the Americas ...
and is regarded as one of the masterpieces of Dutch 17th-century art when the map-makers and printers of cities including Leuven, Antwerp, and Amsterdam were seen as the greatest in the world.