3. DUTCH FREEDOM DUTCH MONEY DUTCH GOVERNMENT DUTCH RELIGION
The Dutch succeeded in securing their independence from the Spanish in the late sixteenth century. Not until 1648, however, after years of continual border skirmishes with the Spanish were the northern Netherlands officially recognized as the United Provinces of the Netherlands ( The Dutch Republic ).
DUTCH MONEY
Amsterdam had the highest per capita income in Europe. That city emerged as the financial center of Europe, having founded the Bank of Amsterdam in 1609.
DUTCH GOVERNMENT
Due to this prosperity and the absence of an absolute ruler, political power increasingly passed into the hands of an urban patrician class of merchants and manufacturers, especially in cities such as Amsterdam, Haarlem, and Delft. That these bustling cities were all located in Holland ( the largest of the seven United Provinces ) perhaps explains why the name “Holland” is used informally to refer to the entire country.
DUTCH RELIGION
While Spain and the southern Netherlands were Catholic, the northern Netherlands were predominantly Protestant. The prevailing Calvinism demanded a puritanical rejection of art in churches, and thus artists produced relatively little religious art in the Dutch Republic at this time (especially when compared to areas dominated by Catholicism in the wake of the Counter- Reformation.)

4. Plebian Portraits
Landscapes
Genre Paintings
Still Lifes

5. Frans Hals

6. Frans Hals, Banquet of the Officers of the St George Militia Company, 1616.

7. Frans Hals. Officers and Sergeants of the St Hadrian Civic Guard. c

8. Frans Hals. The Governors Of The Old Mena Almhouse At Haarlem, 1664.

9. Frans Hals
Buffoon (Jester) Playing A Lute
1623

11. Frans Hals
The Laughing Cavalier
1624

12. Frans Hals
The Laughing Child

13. Frans Hals
The Jolly Toper (or The Merry Drinker)

14. Frans Hals
Lute Player With Wine Glass
1626.

15. Frans Hals
Portrait of Rene Descartres
c1649.

16. Rembrandt van Rijn
Self-Portrait
1660

17. Rembrandt van Rijn, Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp, 1632.

18. Rembrandt van Rijn, The Nightwatch, 1642.
Not your typical group portrait…
The Militia Company of Captain Frans Banning Cocq is more commonly known as Night Watch. This common title is , however, as a misnomer- Night Watch is not a nocturnal scene.

19. Rembrandt van Rijn, The Syndics of the Clothmaker's Guild (The Staalmeesters) 1662.

21. Judith Leyster
Self-Portrait
1630

22. Judith Leyster
A Boy and a Girl with a Cat and an Eel
c1635

23. Judith Leyster
Man Offering A Woman Money
1631

24. Judith Leyster
Boy Playing a Flute
1630

25. Jan Steen
The Feast of St. Nicholas c
Oil on canvas.

26. Jan Steen, The Bean Feast, 1668.

27. Jan Vermeer
The LaceMaker

29. Jan Vermeer
Allegory of the Art of Painting
1670

30. Jan Vermeer
The Letter
1630

31. Jan Vermeer
The Music Lesson

32. Jan Vermeer
Young Woman with a Water Pitcher
c1665

33. Jan Vermeer
The Guitar Player
1670

34. Jan Vermeer
The Kitchenmaid
c1658

35. Jan Vermeer
Girl With a Pearl Earring
1665

37. Willem Claez Heda, Still Life with Oysters, c. 1640s

38. Pieter Claesz, Still Life with a Skull and a Writing Quill, 1628.

39. Willem Claez Heda, Still Life with Tobacco, Wine and Pocket Watch , 1637.

40. Willem Claez Heda
Banquet Piece with Mince Pie,

41. Jan van Goyen, View of Dordrecht from the Dordtse Kil, 1644.

42. Salomon van Ruisdael, View of Deventer Seen from the North-West, 1657.

43. Jan Vermeer, View of Delft, c1661.

44. Jakob Ruisdael, Landscape With Church and Village, 1665-70.

45. Jacob van Ruisdael, Windmill at Wijk-bij-Duurst-ede, c1665.