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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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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 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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Calvinism redirects wealth from ornate churches into households, turning the home into a kind of church through religiously inflected paintings.
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Ordinary ancient households are described as multi-religious, with people practicing the faiths of family, neighbors, spouses, and rulers as a way of getting along.
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"Now, we're concerned about wealth. Why? Because wealth is a measure of your faith. It is a testament to whether or not you will..."
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"...buy spices because it's a measure of your wealth within the household okay remember and this really pointed this is driven by three factors..."
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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..."
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"...there's only darkness and mystery. Okay, so God is within your household, basically. All right, so there's a lot more to be said, but..."
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"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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"...now people are transferring their wealth to the temple into the household in order to better worship God, all right? So a lot of..."
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"So let me explain what's happening. Okay? So remember, the Babylonians in 586, they take over Jerusalem. They burn a temple. They destroy the..."
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"Okay? Because this is how people got along. Right? If you said that my God is better than your God, you will piss off..."
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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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