On Dutch thriftAn experiment using DBNL Ngram Viewer People from Zeeland are thrifty, people from Holland are misers. It is common knowledge that saving...
Keeping up appearances... in an almshouse in Amsterdam‘In winter I live in a room in a Protestant convent’, madam De Nerha wrote at the beginning of the nineteenth century. This ‘Protestant...
Centenarian - Bon-vivant - Fraud?In 1745 the directors of Job’s hospital in Utrecht commisioned an unknown ‘good master’ to paint a portrait of Jan Geritsz. Kuijper alias...
Wealthy children, poor parents? Lessons learned from two Renaissance stained glass windowsThe image below shows a rather unhappy domestic scene. On the left a man and a woman are seated at a table, enjoying a meal. A child is...