(Series) Dutch Art and the City: Commerce, Trade, and Art in the 17th Century
Wed, Nov 04
|Online and Replay
In five sessions, explore how trade, finance, and maritime power shaped Dutch art from the sea paintings of van de Velde to Rembrandt's merchant portraits.
Time & Location
Nov 04, 2026, 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Online and Replay
About the Event
Session 4: 04/11/2016
The Laden Table: Goods, Global Trade, and the Dutch Still Life
Description
Pepper from Java, porcelain from China, sugar from Brazil, silver from the Americas, textiles from the East Indies — the objects crowding Dutch still life paintings are a map of global commerce in paint. This talk reads the still life tradition from the austere breakfast pieces of Pieter Claesz to the opulent pronkstillevens of Willem Kalf as a direct register of what Dutch trading networks had made possible — while never losing sight of the persistent moral unease that runs beneath these glittering surfaces, asking whether a society built entirely on getting and spending had perhaps lost its way.
delivered by Mariska Beekenkamp-Wladimiroff in partnership with New York Y92 Roundtable. You will be redirected to their website for booking.