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Golden Age in the Netherlands

AMSTERDAM - Some of them measure nearly 6 metres long. The exhibition, dedicated to the leading class of the Netherlands in the XVIIth century, includes few paintings but they are huge – as if to show the faith of this young nation in its capacities. Provosts and lieutenants, governors in dark suits and white ruff as well as surgeons: all the elite had its portrait made for the centuries to come by seasoned painters such as Jacob Adriaensz Backer or Nicolaesz Eliasz Piquenoy. Women are totally absent from this show. They will only come to power later…
• at the Hermitage Amsterdam, from 28 November 2015 to the end of 2016.

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