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Title: Daily Life in Rembrandt's Holland by Paul Zumthor, Simon Watson Taylor ISBN: 0-8047-2201-3 Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr Pub. Date: January, 1994 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (1 review)
Rating: 4
Summary: Good background reading for geneologists...
Comment: If you don't feel like reading Simom Schama's 600+ page EMBARRASSMENT OF RICHES, or Israel's 1100+ page THE DUTCH REPUBLIC, Simon Zumthor's DAILY LIFE IN REMBRANDT'S HOLLAND may be the book for you. Zumthor's book was written in French, and first published in English the early 1960s. My paperback copy was published in 1994 by Standford University as part of the "Daily Life" series.
If you're not particularly interested in the politics of the 17th Century, or the military action that took place during the various wars (which Schama and Israel cover in more detail), and you want to delve right into the everyday lives of the people, Zumthor's book allows you to do so. Zumthor covers everything from clothing to food to employment to housing to you name it--all those things all of us do that make up our daily lives.
The section on the artistic elements of Dutch society is relatively short, and Rembrandt is really only mentioned in passing, but you do get an impression of what he, and Vermeer, and other painters probably experienced as they went about their business. Rembrandt and the other painters were not seen as "artists" but rather as "painters" and as such were members of guilds--Medieval organizations that were organized by various occupational groups and still thrived in the first part of the 17th Century in the Netherlands. Zumthor spends some time discussing how the guilds worked and how they were regulated by not only their members but the towns and villages.
Zumthor also provides much interesting information about Dutch church life, community life, and home life and the obsession of the people with cleaning -- stoops, linens, clothes, but according to Zumthor, not always bodies. The Dutch in the 17th Century were a complicted folk, and although I have read Schama and Israel, I enjoyed this book. It's great background reading, especially if you wonder how your own ancestors lived. Read it with Poortvliet's illustrated books, however, as it lacks illustrations (my paperback copy did).
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Title: The Dutch Republic: Its Rise, Greatness, and Fall 1477-1806 by Jonathan Israel ISBN: 0198207344 Publisher: Clarendon Pr Pub. Date: August, 1998 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: The Embarrassment of Riches : An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age by Simon Schama ISBN: 0679781242 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 08 December, 1997 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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Title: Art and Commerce in the Dutch Golden Age by Michael North, Catherine Hill ISBN: 0300081316 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: November, 1999 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (Today Show Book Club #8) by Alexander McCall Smith ISBN: 1400034779 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 06 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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