The Calvinist household becomes the site of divinity in Dutch painting, with light inside and darkness or mystery outside.
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The Calvinist household becomes the site of divinity in Dutch painting, with light inside and darkness or mystery outside.
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Good Dutch middle-class household paintings encode simplicity, restraint, temperance, prudence, and Calvinist work ethic.
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"So, this is a Catholic mentality, all right? So, let's move on to the Calvinist, Dutch mentality of paintings. All right, so let's do..."
"Why, because the middle class itself is a very fluid, very flexible, very, and, and uncertain group of people, okay? So, their paintings will..."
"So as you can see, these paintings are ones of simplicity, ones of restraint, ones of temperance, ones of prudence, okay? So within these..."
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