Thursday, September 16, 2010

My Paper for Review

Thomas M. Stillwell
N00467683
Rubens to Rembrandt 2010FALL.ARH3354.82766.01
Image Sleuth Essay
September 15, 2010


    In this paper I shall seek to prove, beyond the shadow of an educated doubt, the following catalog of art illustrates the glorious struggle of the Dutch independence during their Eighty Years War with Spain.

   Furthermore, these works can be subdivided into three categories.  The first is a selection of war etchings from Dutch propaganda designed to rally a collective front against the Spanish rule.  Secondly, we have a collection of paintings representing the battlefield and fight for independence. Third, we have a collection representing the main character in our tale; Dutch Statesman, General and Politician, Frederik Hendrik.

From the conceptual notion of revolt, to the battlefields and ending with victorious independence, these works tell the tale of the birth of Dutch nation.

Dutch patriotism was not the cause, but the consequence, of the revolt against Spain. Irrespective of its invention after the fact, however, it rapidly became a powerful focus of allegiance to people who considered themselves fighting for hearth and home.[i] 

In 1568 the United Provinces of the Dutch Republic began a revolt against Philip the II of Spain which would continue for the next eighty years!  The origins of this revolt were written in expostulatory style and accompanied by engravings that were simultaneously heroic and gruesome and meant to etch themselves into the collective memory as they were printed on the page.i


“The Sifter and the Peace Offering” (The Nieuwe BarneValschen Trade) is an etching from 1618.  Here Spain is represented by a serpent bird-footed cloaked man trying to elude the Dutch republic with a peace laurel.  The Republic is represented by the lion and sword that guards their symbolic country.  A grim reaper figure with a Dutch hat is flying above with a “human-sifter” to the right seemingly separating good and evil.  Another interesting note is the appearance of a comet in the upper left. I believe this is a remnant from the original etching dated to 1598.  Possibly Halley’s comet as this etching was redesigned from it’s original state to suit the political climate of 1618.


This etching by Pieter van der Heyden (after Pieter Bruegel the Elder), the “Big Fish Eat Little Fish” dates to 1557.

The focal point of this etching is an enormously large fish that has either been pulled ashore or beached.   A man stands on a ladder stabbing the fish with a trident, while the other slices open his belly releasing numerous smaller exotic fish the larger creature has consumed.   In the foreground an elderly looking man and his son sit in a boat.  The man gestures to his son at the scene and a Flemish inscription translates, “"Look son, I have long known that the big fish eat the small."   This vernacular form of the ancient Latin proverb, which appears in majuscule lettering just above, relates to the theme of a senseless world in which the powerful instinctively and consistently prey on the weak.[ii]    This is an easily interpreted scene amongst the common Dutch society.  A sort of “dog eat dog” reference to a small oppressed nation.  They are being offered two options; fighting or being consumed by the larger fish.

 “The Disbanding of the Waardgelders” Oil on  

Canvas by Pauwels van Hillegaert 1627. 



Hillegaert (1596–1640) was a Dutch Golden

Age painter of landscapes and military

scenes. Hillegaert won royal commissions to paint battle scenes, most notably for the Siege of Hertogenbosch in 1629. He also won a commission for the Battle of Nieuwpoort.[iii]


 Oil on Panel, Prince Maurits at the Battle of Nieuwpoort, 2 July 1600 [iv] represents a rare moment in the Dutch battle for independence where the Spanish troops were driven from the field by then stadholder and general Maurice Hendrik.

  Following Prince Maurice’s death in 1625, Hillegaert was commissioned to paint his successor Frederik Hendrik.
     
 Frederik Hendrik (also know as Frederick Henry) was the successor to his brother Maurice Hendrik as stadholder of the seven provinces during the Dutch Golden Era.  It is said that his kindly disposition, well-known moderation and geniality, his handsome face and chivalrous bearing, his often-proved gallantry and skill in war, and last but not least, his Dutch birth and training, all conspired to win for him golden opinions, and make his accession to power acceptable to all parties.[v] 
Frederik Hendrik was a hero to the Dutch Republic and played a major role in their fight for independence from Spain.

 A portrait of Frederik Hendrik by Gerard van Honthorst in 1650 shows the triumphant general and stadholder in battle armor accentuating his leadership at the end the Eighty Years War.[vi]


 Another family portrait by Honthorst shows Frederik Hendrik and his family in 1648.  A cherub is flying in above with a peace laurel symbolizing the end of the war and recognition of the Dutch declaration of independence.[vii]


 I conclude with a beautiful etching by Pieter Potter entitled, Perseus and Andromeda. 

This etching depicts a planned production on the water of the Damrak for Henrietta Maria, queen of United Kingdom, in Amsterdam 9 March 1642.[viii]  

In this etching Perseus represents
Frederik Hendrik triumphantly swooping in from above to save Andromeda (The Dutch Republic) while the sea monster (Spain) lurks in the background.

And so it is with this etching I conclude my essay.  The Dutch Republic is free from the stronghold and persecutions of Spain.  Their art tells a story and does so very well.  With passion, wittiness and thoughtful undertones of classic mythology, we come to understand the birth of this magnificent nation.


[i] Schama, Simon. The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age. New York: Knopf, 1987. Print.
George Edmundson
The English Historical Review
Vol. 5, No. 17 (Jan., 1890), pp. 41-64
Published by: Oxford University Press
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/546555

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Theme separation and adjacent images

So here is a summary of images and how we decided to group them. We all agreed that the main theme is... Dutch Independence.

Sub Theme Propaganda ( Political and religious)
Political
1. Image 4. Perseus and Andromeda
2. Image 1. Sifter and peace offering
3. Image 26. Sifter broad sheet Maurice's coat of arms
Religious
1. Image 13 The large balance with Calvinist literature
2. Image 21 Big fish small fish proverb
Etchings that memorialize
1.Image 14 Maurice
2.Image 7 Frederik

Sub Theme Timeline of War
1. image 16 yellow sky battle scene
2.image 24 possible mt zion reference... still need more info for consideration
3. image 22 laying down arms
4. image 19 treaty/truce
5.image 17 horseshow, possible Golden Age after war

Subtheme Portraiture
1. image 5 Frederik and family, all is well, war is over etc...

This grouping helped to eliminate some images, it became less overwhelming...

Hope this helps!!

Twelve Years' Truce
Main articles: Twelve Years' Truce and Synod of Dort
The cost of fortress-building and the upkeep of the large standing armies put both Spain and the Republic under severe fiscal strain. Also because of the slump in trade that was caused by the efficient trade embargo imposed by Spain on the Dutch since 1598 the Dutch regents estimated that they could not safely increase the already heavy burden of taxation. In September 1606 Oldenbarnevelt therefore urged the States of Holland to seek an accommodation with Spain. This met with a surprisingly favorable reception from Spain, as Philip III and the Duke of Lerma had already resolved to concede sovereignty, if that proved inevitable in order to halt the war. What prompted them to this concession was the inroads that the Dutch East India Company (or VOC), that had been chartered by the States-General in 1602, had been making in the Portuguese empire's sphere of influence in the East Indies. After all, since 1580 there had been a union of the crowns of Spain and Portugal. The conquest of a number of Portuguese possessions in Ambon, Ternate and Tidore in 1605 by the VOC caused such consternation that a Spanish presence was quickly established to counterbalance Dutch gains. Philip wanted this stopped, and Oldenbarnevelt seemed initially amenable to suggestions that the VOC be suppressed and another project to charter a similar Dutch company for the Americas be aborted. The Archdukes, on instructions from Madrid, therefore secretly declared in March, 1607, that they were willing to negotiate a peace with the States-General, as representatives of free lands over which they made no claim. A ceasefire in the Netherlands was signed in April, 1607.[88]
However, the negotiations were almost aborted immediately when it was discovered that the Dutch had made no concessions in writing in the armistice-agreement, and it therefore appeared that Spain had conceded a major point without obtaining anything in return, which was seen as a major humiliation for the Crown. About the same time the news was received of a major defeat a Dutch fleet under admiral Jacob van Heemskerk had dealt the Spanish navy in the Battle of Gibraltar of April 25, 1607. The Spanish indignation grew even more, when it transpired that Oldenbarnevelt's verbal undertakings to suppress the VOC proved worthless, as he simply could not deliver on such a promise in view of the political situation in the Republic. This apparent deception put paid to the prospects of a permanent peace, so the only feasible outcome of the negotiations might be a truce of limited duration.[89]
Oldenbarnevelt's peace initiatives met with stringent opposition from Maurice, Amsterdam, and Zeeland for different reasons (Zeeland, for instance, was making good money in the "trade with the enemy" across the blockaded Scheldt, and stood to lose from a truce during which trade relations would be normalized). The opposition engaged in a lively pamphlet war to influence public opinion, but Oldenbarnevelt managed to persuade the Holland regents. He pointed out that a truce would lessen the fiscal pressures; help revive Dutch commerce with the Iberian Peninsula, which had by default fallen almost exclusively into English hands, after the peace James I of England concluded in 1604 with Spain; and free the hands of the Dutch elsewhere in Europe (as in the Sound where Denmark at the time was hindering the Dutch Baltic trade[90]) to defend their commercial interests by force if necessary. He argued also that the loss of trade with the Indies would be outweighed by the positive effects on European trade of a lifting of the embargoes.[91]
Spain now offered a truce with a duration of twelve years, provided the Republic would grant freedom of worship for Catholics. Again, Oldenbarnevelt had to refuse this concession as the political situation in the Republic made that impossible. He was, however, able to offer a short truce (until 1613) in the Indies, and the suppression of the proposed Dutch West India Company for the time being. Philip now grudgingly accepted these meagre results and the Truce was signed at Antwerp on April 9, 1609, marking the official recognition by Spain of the Republic as a diplomatic entity "as if" it were a sovereign state. The Dutch Revolt had officially ended[92]
The immediate result for the Republic was that it was now also officially recognized by other European states as a sovereign nation. In 1609 France and England received Dutch resident ambassadors, and soon after diplomatic relations were opened with the Republic of Venice, the Sultan of Morocco, and the Ottoman Porte. Diplomatic recognition also enabled the Republic to start building a network of consulates across Europe. But the Republic now also dared be unfriendly in its relations with other European powers, as when it forced James I to back down in a conflict over English unfinished cloth in 1614 with an economic boycot[93]
The Truce also had negative effects. Dutch long-distance trade to the Indies and the Americas suffered, because the Spanish and Portuguese colonialists were given a respite to improve their defenses overseas. The official embargo on trade with the Americas had ended, but the colonists now imposed their own "unofficial" one, limiting Dutch trade with Caracas and the Amazon region. Temporary setbacks in the Indies caused the price of VOC shares on the Amsterdam Stock Exchange to fall from a high of 200 in 1608 to 132 after the Truce started. The Zeeland transit traffic to the Southern Netherlands declined sharply. On the other hand, the lifting of the Dutch blockade of Antwerp and the Flemish coast helped revive the trade in Flemish textile products, just as the Flemish textile industry experienced a revival itself. This worked to the detriment of the recently booming Dutch textile industry. Wages of predominantly former Flemish textile workers in cities like Leiden plummeted as a result.[94]
The political unrest this economic downturn caused, helped aggravate the political crisis that the Oldenbarnevelt regime faced during the latter part of the Truce. This crisis followed from dissension about the religious policy of the Holland regents, but became conflated with the monarchical aspirations of the stadtholders, especially Maurice. Everybody in Dutch Calvinist circles of whatever hue agreed that the "True Religion" should be supported by the State. Local authorities therefore paid for the upkeep of the churches of the Dutch Reformed Church, the only officially recognized religion since the States of Holland had prohibited other kinds of worship in 1573, and for the Livings of its preachers and schoolmasters. This meant that the church was a "Public Church." But what was its relationship with the state as such a publicly supported denomination? Viewpoints diverged. Many regents expected some deference of the church to their interests, and at least a say in the appointment of dominees, though they probably would not go as far as to demand the powers of oversight, usually associated with an established church, such as the Lutheran churches in Germany and Scandinavia, and the Church of England. They usually steered clear of interference in doctrinal matters, though not as a matter of principle. Others insisted on full autonomy of the church in doctrinal matters and church government, whereas the hard-line "strict" Calvinists often seemed to aspire to some form of theocracy, in which the church would direct official policy in matters in which it took an interest. As long as matters did not come to a head these divergent views did not cause trouble, as in practice the middle road of church autonomy was followed.
However, in 1606 a theological quarrel developed between two Leiden professors, Jacobus Arminius and Franciscus Gomarus. The abstruse arguments need not detain us here (not many contemporaries outside the universities seem to have fully understood them at the time[95]) but the upshot of the argument was that outsiders started to take sides, and that this led to often physical abuse by, and of, the contestants. The partisans of Arminius therefore addressed the Five articles of Remonstrance to the States of Holland, in which they exposited their viewpoints on Calvinist doctrine, and asked the States to take a standpoint. To help the States decide a disputation between two six-man teams of Arminians and Gomarists was held before the States in July 1610, in which the Gomarists presented a "Counter-Remonstrance," in which they gave their arguments against the Remonstrants' doctrinal position, at the same time asking the States to back off, and leave the matter to a National Synod. Unfortunately, the States did not take this sensible suggestion (possibly because they suspected that such a Synod would result in the condemnation of the Remonstrants as heretics on a majority vote, a result they wanted to avoid).[96]
While the States of Holland were dithering about a decision, unrest about the quarrel began to spread around the Republic, disturbing the public peace and causing political problems in that the regents began to take sides, often in favor of the Remonstrants, whereas the common people, incited by the dominees, often opted for the Counter-Remonstrant viewpoint. The eminent Dutch jurist Hugo Grotius, after a visit to England in an abortive effort to dissuade James I from intervening in the quarrel, came up with what he viewed as a solution. In his view, a public church must of necessity be a "big tent" that would accommodate as many believers as possible. He believed that this was the case in the Church of England that allowed all kinds of doctrinal variations under its wing, from crypto-Catholics to Puritans. The Dutch partisans (like the Puritans), however, envisaged a church of "pure" believers (themselves), in which there would be no place for "unbelievers," like their opponents. To achieve Grotius' lofty ideal it would be necessary to tone down the doctrinal differences, affording toleration of different viewpoints, except in relation to the most basic tenets of the Christian faith (like belief in the Trinity) that everybody would accept (he therefore drew the line at Socinianism). Disagreements about less basic tenets, like the ones that divided Remonstrants and Counter-Remonstrants, should be left to an individual's conscience in accordance with the freedom of conscience enshrined in the Union of Utrecht. Grotius knew full well that neither party was ready to concede this and he therefore proposed to legislate his proposal in the form of a States of Holland resolution that would, up to a point, curtail freedom of expression (i.e. the freedom to hurl anathemas at ones opponents) in such a way as to restore public order. The resolution would define matters that would be open to debate, and matters that would not be. Preachers who would defy the States in this matter could then be disciplined by the authorities, if need be by depriving them of their Livings.[97]
Oldenbarnevelt supported Grotius in this policy (though it could be seen as an assault on the autonomy of the Public Church) and together they managed to drive the placard through in 1614 against opposition from many sides. Initially, and superficially, the policy seemed to work, but eventually it ended in the ruin of the Oldenbarnevelt regime. This was due to the following factors. First, Oldenbarnevelt failed in maintaining unity on his policy in the States of Holland (Amsterdam opposed him), and thereby weakened the hegemonic position of Holland in the Republic as a whole. Secondly, though the States put their thumb in the scales in favor of the Remonstrants with this policy (as those, being a minority, were in danger of being driven out of the public church), the Counter-Remonstrants maintained their strength among dominees and schoolmasters, and so indirectly among the common people. Finally, the social unrest as a consequence of deteriorating economic circumstances for the staunchly "strict" Calvinist ex-Flemish laborers (who opted en masse for the Counter-Remonstrants) destabilized the State in 1617–18.[98]
Mob violence in many Holland and Utrecht cities against Remonstrant regents ensued. The federal garrisons and civic militias refused to intervene to protect the regents (a pattern we also observe at the end of the First and Second Stadtholderless Periods, when likewise States-Party regimes were overturned). The Remonstrant regents now felt so threatened that they resorted to the desperate measure of the so-called "Sharp Resolution" of the States of Holland of August 4, 1617, which authorized city governments to raise mercenary troops, called waardgelders[99], outside the federal army or civic militias, to maintain public order. This drew an immediate protest from Maurice and from the other provinces on constitutional grounds. They asserted that the Union of Utrecht prohibited the raising of troops by individual cities without consent from the States-General. Even more threatening to the federal supremacy had been the provision in the Sharp Resolution that asserted that units in the federal army paid for the account of Holland owed their primary allegiance to that province. This was a restatement of Holland's old constitutional position that the provinces were supremely sovereign, and the Union no more than a confederation of sovereign provinces. Maurice,and the other provinces (except Utrecht), now claimed that the States-General possessed an overriding sovereignty in matters of common defense and foreign policy[100]

Disarming the waardgelders in Utrecht by Joost Cornelisz. Droochsloot
Many expected a military coup after the cities of Leiden and Utrecht actually raised corps of waardgelders and used them to purge the civic militias of Counter-Remonstrant sympathizers. Maurice proceeded cautiously, however, preferring to undermine the political support of the Oldenbarnevelt regime in Holland. A revolutionary situation developed in a number of cities in Holland where Remonstrant town councils were overturned by popular intervention. To counter this, the Remonstrant regents proposed in January, 1618 to withhold part of Holland's contribution to the Generality budget and use the money to raise more waardgelder companies. Maurice now mobilized the support of the five provinces opposing Holland and Utrecht for a States-General resolution disbanding the waardgelders. This was voted through on July 9, 1618, with five votes to two, Holland and Utrecht opposing. Oldenbarnevelt and Grotius, in desperation, now overplayed their hand: appealing to the requirement for unanimity in the Union treaty, they sent a delegation to the federal troops in Utrecht (that were supposed to disarm the waardgelders in that city) with instructions that their first allegiance was to the province that paid them, and that they were to ignore instructions by the stadtholder in case of conflict. This intervention was construed by their opponents as treason. Prince Maurice[101] now brought up additional federal troops to Utrecht and started to disarm the waardgelders there on July 31, 1618. There was no resistance. The political opposition to his actions imploded as Oldenbarnevelt's Utrecht ally, Gilles van Ledenberg, advocaat of the Utrecht States, fled to Holland[102]
Perceiving that resistance was useless, Oldenbarnevelt and his Remonstrant allies now capitulated. Leiden disbanded its waardgelders voluntarily in August, and Oldenbarnevelt and Grotius acquiesced in the convening of a National Synod to arbitrate the Arminian controversy. On August 28, 1618, however, the States-General passed a secret resolution to authorize Maurice to arrest Oldenbarnevelt, Grotius, Ledenberg and Rombout Hogerbeets. This was justified with an appeal to the asserted residual sovereignty of the States-General that overrode that of the States of Holland. After the arrest these leaders of the Oldenbarnevelt regime were indicted for high treason and brought before an ad hoc tribunal[103] consisting mostly of opponents of the accused. The trial took a long time. Meanwhile, Maurice proceeded to purge the Holland ridderschap[104] and the vroedschappen of a number of cities that had been governed by Remonstrant regents up to then. He replaced the old regents with adherents of the Counter-Remonstrant faction, often nouveau riche merchants that had little experience in government affairs. These purges constituted a political revolution and ensured that his Orangist regime would be securely in charge of the Republic for the next 32 years. Henceforth the stadtholder, not the Advocate of Holland, would direct the affairs of the Republic, mainly through his parliamentary managers in the Holland ridderschap. The Holland leadership was emasculated by making sure that the position of Grand Pensionary[105] would henceforth be filled by a succession of mediocre, incompetent and pliable Orangists, at least up to the appointment of Johan de Witt in 1653[106]
Meanwhile the National Synod was convened in the city of Dordrecht in November, 1618. The deliberations of this august body[107] progressed slowly. Only in the Spring of 1619 did it get around to condemning the Remonstrants for heresy, and casting them out of the Public Church. A more lasting accomplishment of the Synod was that it commissioned an "authorized" translation of the Bible in Dutch, a language that the translators had to make up from Dutch, Brabantish and Flemish elements; the translations therefore contributed mightily to the unification of the Dutch language.[108]
The trial of Oldenbarnevelt cum suis ended soon afterwards. In view of the composition of the tribunal the result was a foregone conclusion, even though the defendants put up a spirited defense. After all, they were the most eminent jurists in the Republic. The defense primarily rejected the competence of the court and furthermore claimed that treason against the Generality was not possible, because the federal state did not exist apart from the sovereign provinces. The court rejected the latter argument, claiming that in actuality sovereignty was divided between the Generality and the provinces. In its view, the Sharp Resolution contravened the Union of Utrecht and could therefore be construed as high treason. However, (as an illustration of the muddled procedures), when Oldenbarnevelt was convicted on May 12, 1619, it was not of this high-treason, but of a contrived charge of conniving with Spain. This Oldenbarnevelt kept denying till his last breath, when he was beheaded the next day. He refused to ask for mercy, to Maurice's annoyance[109], and he received none, despite the fact that Maurice's stepmother Louise de Coligny, and the French ambassador, pleaded for Oldenbarnevelt's life. Ledenberg equally received a death sentence, but committed suicide. Hogerbeets and Grotius were sentenced to life-imprisonment[110]
Thus ended the life of Oldenbarnevelt

...a man of great activity, business, memory and wisdom – yes, extra-ordinary in every respect[111]

in the words of the notation about the execution in the register of the resolutions of the States of Holland on May 13, 1619.

valkenburg horse fair

this is pictures hendrik and maurice

Paintings

prince maurice at the battle of nieupoort by paulels van hillegaert

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_Revolt

Tuesday, September 14, 2010





She is pictured in....

she is not pictured here but the scale is.

Monday, September 13, 2010

Two or Three Things I Know...

Willem Jacobsz Delff, Portrait of Frederick Hendrick, Prince of Orange-Nassau, 1619, Engraving printed on silk satin (Image found on wga.hu)
Gerrit van Honthorst, Frederick Hendrick, Prince of Orange, with His Wife Amalia van Solms and Their Three Youngest Daughters, 1647 (Image found on wga.hu)
Workshop of Honthorst, Frederick Hendrick, Prince of Orange, 1650, Oil on canvas (Image found on wikipedia) -- searched for portrait of frederick hendrick, school of honthorst.
Big Fish Eat Little Fish, 1557
Pieter van der Heyden after Pieter Bruegel the Elder (Netherlandish, active by 1551, died 1569)
Engraving; first state of three

9 x 11 5/8 in. (22.9 x 29.6 cm)
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917 (17.3.859)
One of the most haunting of Bruegel's images, Big Fish Eat Little Fish is among the first of the artist's many treatments of proverbs in paintings or prints. The image reveals many small and large fish tumbling out of the mouth of an enormous beached fish. A small, helmeted figure with an oversized knife slices open the big fish's belly, revealing even more marine creatures. Land, air, and water seem to be overrun by an odd assortment of real and fantastic fish, while in the foreground a man, accompanied by his son, gestures toward the scene. The meaning of his gesture is conveyed in the Flemish inscription below, which translates: "Look son, I have long known that the big fish eat the small." This vernacular form of the ancient Latin proverb, which appears in majuscule lettering just above, relates to the theme of a senseless world in which the powerful instinctively and consistently prey on the weak. That the son understands the lesson is apparent from his gesture toward the other man in the boat, who has extracted a small fish from a larger one. Bruegel's brilliant visualization of the proverb was first conceived as a drawing (Vienna, Graphische Sammlung Albertina) that is signed by the artist and dated 1556. This engraving by Pieter van der Heyden, however, is signed in the lower left corner with the name Hieronymus Bosch, who had died in 1516. The print's publisher, Hieronymus Cock, was probably responsible for replacing Bruegel's name with that of the more famous and salable Bosch, who had, not coincidentally, a major influence on Bruegel.


Source: Pieter van der Heyden after Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Big Fish Eat Little Fish (17.3.859) | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
  Title: The Nieuwe BarneValschen Trade. Political cartoon on John of Oldenbarnevelt and remonstrants. Van Oldenbarnevelt en zijn trawanten staan links vooraan. Oldenbarnevelt and his cronies are front left. Rechts probeert ''Bedeckte Tirannie'' de Nederlandse Leeuw en Belgica met een vredestak te verleiden. Right tries Bedeckte Tyranny''''the Dutch Lion and Belgica with a peace branch to seduce. Rechtsboven schudt Maurits aan de grote zeef genaamd ''Hooch Nodich''. Maurice shakes right corner on the big screen called''Hooch''Nodich. In de lucht verdrijft Tijd de furieën Twist, Bedrog en Geweld. In the air expels the time furieën strife, deceit and violence. Linksboven de komeet. Top left the comet. De prent is gedrukt van een oude plaat uit 1598 (FM 1086D), aangepast aan de situatie in 1618. The print is printed from an old record from 1598 (FM 1086D) adjusted to the situation in 1618.
derision spotprent on the fall of Johan van Oldenbarnevelt. Right stands prince Maurits, earl Willem Lodewijk and earl seriousness Casimir, left members of Staten-Generaal to a screen where Van Oldenbarnevelt and two others, indicated as poison, doorheen falls. Seven provinces united above Justitia and the weapons of Maurits and the republic of the. Under show a text booklet with a long verse concerning three columns with the title Verclaringhe of IVSTITIA, Ende levendighe verthooninghe of t'ghene over many years gheschiet is stuck, as the ghene teghenwoordich gheschiet. The verse has been signed Jo Pean.
Portrait of Maurits, earl of Nassau, prince of orange, staande for a landscape in which at troops of the prince at Philippine landing. In the verte the city, for that the blockhouse (Grand Fort Philippe). Oval show with in the angles standards, some animals and all kinds of weaponry. Under the prent a Latin verse Hugo large.
Perseus and Andromeda. Allegory on the release of the Netherlands (Andromeda) prince Frederik Hendrik (Perseus). On water the vlammenspuwende sea monster (Spain). Show of a planned production on the water of the Damrak for the intocht of the Henrietta Maria, queen of United Kingdom, in Amsterdam 9 March 1642. 
From: http://www.rijksmuseum.nl/collectie/zoeken/asset.jsp?id=SK-A-3473&lang=en








Thursday, September 9, 2010

Images

Hey Guys,

Yep, this took forever!!!  If you find information on a painting or a similar work, just post a blog.  You can right click on the photo to get the "copy image location" and use that address when you insert the image.  The same for the image you are inserting.  I actually uploaded all these images from my hard-drive as I believe Dr. Brown's files are somehow right-click protected.
 

Wednesday, September 8, 2010

check out this website

Check out this website and let me know what your thoughts are.

· http://marinni.livejournal.com/479766.html

this is someone's live journal, but it shows alot of etchings. i found it helpful!

Sunday, September 5, 2010

In the beginning...

Hey Guys,

Working on the design of the blog... Let me know how this looks!




Also, send me your gmail address (if you have to sign up for one, it's pretty simple) and I'll add you as an administrator.

-Tom