Word: seventeenth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...commercial prominence of the Netherlands in the seventeenth century made Amsterdam the major market place for the sale of world art. It also provided the nutrient for the greatest flowering of Dutch culture...
Ideally, an exhibition of seventeenth century Dutch art would represent not only the three great masters--Frans Hals, Rembrandt van Rijn, and Jan Vermeer--and the artists who influenced them, but also the breadth and abundance of high quality painting done in the Netherlands at that time. Such an exhibition would show Hals, Rembrandt, and Vermeer against a backdrop of Mannerist, Caravagguesque, and Italianate paintings; it would include a representation of the best still lifes, biblical and historical paintings, genre scenes, landscapes, marine paintings, and portraits...
...paintings of Bloemaert, Cornelis Van Haarlem, and Honthorst and Terbrugghen--with rich colors and deep chiaroscuro effects (contrasts of light and dark) are also fairly well sampled, as are the Italianate canvasses, including paintings by Poelenburgh and Nicolaes Berchem. The influence of these three styles is very marked in seventeenth century Dutch paintings, particularly in the Rembrandts, but the range of Rembrandt paintings in this exhibition is not adequate to demonstrate this clearly...
Many significant influences on Dutch painting in the seventeenth century came from the South via engravings and etchings; these are not included in the special exhibition. However, at the Fenway entrance on the first floor, the museum has arranged a display of prints, from its own collection, in conjunction with the Rembrandt exhibition. The print show contains late Mannerist engravings by Goltzius and others, as well as a variety of genre works, portraits, landscapes, and several Rembrandt etchings. Rembrandt's genius is more adequately shown in these prints than in the paintings upstairs...
...allowing the Georgia legislature to elect the governor, the Court has retreated from the position it enunciated clearly in its decision on the county unit system: "The conception of political equality from the Declaration of Independence, to Lincoln's Gettysberg Address, to the Fifteenth, Seventeenth, and Nineteenth Amendments can mean only one thing -- one person, one vote...