LL200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Multinational Corporation, Anabaptism, Music Lesson
9 Oct 2014
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The mundane sublime: dutch golden age painting: eighty years" war (1568-1648) Jews from spain and portugal: cheap energy. First country to make an effort with wind mills. Johannes vermeer (1632-1675: born, raised, lived, died and buried in delft, plagued by money problems, married above his status in the social ladder, converts to catholicism, lived with his wife, mother-in-law and eleven children. Had fourteen children, three died: ran two family businesses in addition to painting. Father"s art shop: limited oeuvre, 1672: the year of disaster . Invasions don"t stick, but led to financial meltdown. Measuring of the souls in the last judgment. Her soul will be weighed at some point. Scale is even, metaphor of her soul, could go either way: the concert, woman playing an instrument (called a virginal, scene painted on the lower side, painting in a painting, vermeer"s mother-in-law owned it. The procuress (prostitute, old lady asking for money from the.
