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TITLE: BAROQUE PERIOD IN HOLLAND

DESCRIPTION: PROTESTANT, MIDDLE CLASS ART. Dutch culture grew as result of choosing Protestantism. Established a Republic under the House of Orange. Wealth came from trade, not nobility. Dutch art was a free art market -- no palace painters or de Medicis as life-long patrons here. Painters did work "on spec" mostly. Dutch painters specialized in a particular CATEGORY: 1.portraiture, 2.group portraiture, 3.still life - a.food, b.flowers, 4."genre" - means scenes of everyday life, 5.landscape, 6.interiors. Art was merchandized in ateliers. DUTCH ART = A COMMODITY. Dutch were ICONOCLASTS = persons not liking religious art. They found it idolatrous. GIN invented here. Tavern a popular social gathering place, drunkenness common.