HIST 1019 : Part 3 - got 90% in the course!
Document Summary
Built world"s largest shippery (some 3,000 fishing ships) Some have said the hunters are soldiers for the holy roman. Empire, in that they are not hunters for bears, but hunters for. A view of delft delft=the ceramic center of the netherlands, where the ceramic factories were. Delft was south of amsterdam, but it was an important city because: Was one of the head quarters of the dutch east india company. (delft was a river port, in the painting we see a canal) Canal depicted people could travel from all the way to rotterdam. On left picture: middle-class dutch men and women (can tell middle class because of their dress) standing on edge of river. Center of picture: we see a church steeple (the sun-lite tower) church not far from the great market square where vemeer was born (his father ran an inn there) On left side: we see a shorter, darker tower the parrot brewing.
