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  2. Het Menselyk Bedryf ("The Book of Trades") - Wikipedia

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    Het Menselyk Bedryf ("The Book of Trades") is an emblem book of 100 engravings by Jan Luyken and his son Caspar published in 1694, illustrating various trades in Amsterdam during the Dutch Golden Age. The majority of the trades shown are from the textile industry (12), followed by marine pursuits (8).

  3. Jan Luyken - Wikipedia

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    Jan Luiken made the engravings for the popular "sailor's bible" called "Lusthof des Gemoeds", by Jan Philipsz Schabaalje, 1714 Jan Luyken's print of the peat boat used as a ruse by the Dutch to gain possession of Breda from the Spanish in 1590. He was born and died in Amsterdam, where he learned engraving from his father Kaspar Luyken. [1]

  4. File:Anneken Hendriks, Dam, Amsterdam, by Jan Luyken.jpg

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    Grabado de Jan Luyken para la segunda edición de El Espejo de los Mártires, 1685. Anneken era un ama de casa de Frisia, anabautista desde 1552. En octubre de 1551 fue identificaba en Amsterdam y condenada a muerte. Se ordenó al verdugo llenarle la boca de pólvora, atarla a una escalera y lanzarla a un lecho de carbones ardientes.

  5. The Great Theatre of Dutch Painters - Wikipedia

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    The first volume appeared in 1718, and was followed by the second volume in 1719, the year Houbraken died. The third and last volume was published posthumously by Houbraken's wife and children in 1721. This work is considered to be a very important source of information on 17th-century artists of the Netherlands.

  6. Still life paintings from the Netherlands, 1550–1720 - Wikipedia

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    Still Life Paintings from the Netherlands 1550–1720, (Dutch:Het Nederlandse Stilleven 1550–1720) is a 1999 art exhibition catalog published for a jointly held exhibition by the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam (19 June – 9 September 1999) and Cleveland Museum of Art (31 October 1999 – 9 January 2000).

  7. Pride and Joy: Children's Portraits in the Netherlands, 1500 ...

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    The exhibition catalog included detailed discussions of 85 paintings from various collection holders, that together give an overview of four basic aspects of daily life in 17th-century portraits of children and families from the Low Countries: family values, educating children, children at play, and children's fashions. [3]

  8. Caspar Luyken - Wikipedia

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    Caspar Luyken (18 December 1672 – 4 October 1708) was a Dutch illustrator and engraver. He was the son of Jan Luyken with whom he collaborated extensively. [1]Luyken worked mostly in Amsterdam, and produced Het Menselyk Bedryf ("The Book of Trades") with his father in 1694.

  9. Art of the Low Countries - Wikipedia

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    The most famous painter from the region in the late 17th and early 18th century is Antoine Watteau, whose hometown of Valenciennes had been annexed by France a decade before he was born. Otherwise, few painters from about 1700 until the end of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands in 1830 have been incorporated into the art historical discourse.