HIST1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Sidereus Nuncius, Delftware, Microsoft Powerpoint
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Look at picture on powerpoint to get pictures. Porcelain implements being used may not be porcelain it may be delftware. Playing cards leisure and time on their hands. Tiled floor decorative element to the space. Child in the scene but it is positioned weirdly. Man seems to be a soldier which makes it seem that he is fighting for his own state, but he is part of the force that is enslaving others: rights and bondage. Where/when do you think we are: dutch republic in the mid 1700th century, looks like an imitation of vermeer. Painting name: a game of cards 1649, hendrick van der burgh: at the end of the 30 years war. Dutch republic at time said: religiously tolerant compared to france, international trade display of map, climate change. 1751 first volume of the first encyclopedia that diderot gave us.
