The Dutch art market emerges because a wealthy Calvinist middle class must enjoy wealth inside the household without violating its ethic of simple hard work.
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The Dutch art market emerges because a wealthy Calvinist middle class must enjoy wealth inside the household without violating its ethic of simple hard work.
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Those three pressures generate modern money-making, the art market, literature, and materialism as a prototypical middle-class identity.
Jiang says the Dutch Republic sold five to ten million paintings between 1600 and 1700 despite having only one to two million people.
Italian Renaissance art is patronized by wealthy elites, oriented toward the classical past, and displayed for public communal celebration; Dutch Golden Age art is middle-class, present-oriented, private, and contemplative.
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"...and the answer is through art. So now you have an art market in the first time in human history. Before, you had a..."
"And this will mark a radical change in how art is created, okay? And also, because of this, you have a new idea called..."
"...in human society the creation of money the creation of the art market okay the art market also includes literature by the way but..."
"So the Dutch see life as a constant struggle between your urges and your faith, between your emotions and reason, okay? And this picture,..."
"So the Italian Renaissance, you have great artwork from the Italian Renaissance, you have great artwork from the Dutch Golden Age, okay. What are..."
"the art itself and this will give rise to the modern art market right any questions before I move on all right so to..."
"...these paintings, okay? The question then is, why is there an art market?"
"What's the purpose of an art market? And so there are different reasons, okay? Well, the first major reason is to show that you're..."
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The Dutch Golden Age begins with a poisoned Spanish windfall and ends with Vermeer exposing cracks in the respectable household.
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