5.3 A golden life

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As rich as a king

5.3 a Golden life

As rich as a king

5.3 a Golden life

Age of Regents and Monarchs (1600-1700)

Typical Aspects

• Worldwide business contacts, capitalism and the start of a world economy
  
• The place of the Dutch Republic in political sense and the economic and cultural development it experienced
  
• The aspiration of monarchs to gain absolute power
  
• The scientific revolution

Learning goals

You can describe the various social groups that lived in the Dutch Republic.

A rich life

• Merchants and regents were able to become very rich and would by luxury items.
• They buy expensive clothing, they lavishly furinish their houses and they commision portraits (of their family).
• Even simple merchants and craftsmen are able to buy paintings to decorate their house as well.

Regents: A person appointed to govern a city

Regents of the St. Elizabethgasthuis in Haarlem. Painted by Frans Hals.

Adolf and Catharina Croeser, known as 'The mayor of Delft and his daughter', by Jan Steen

Story

Portret of a couple by Frans Hals.

Story

Activity!

Draw a Dutch regent and his wife from the 17th century in the style of a painting from the Dutch Golden age. It doesn't matter if you can't draw, as long as you try.

Your drawing needs to contain the following elements:

- A regent and his wife (use google to see what their clothes looked like).

- A background (they could stand in front of their house, inside, etc.)

- A painting was filled with symbolism. Add your own! (at least 3)

As rich as a king

5.3 a Golden life part 2

Learning goals

You can describe the various social groups that lived in the Dutch Republic.

Age of Regents and Monarchs (1600-1700)

Typical Aspects

• Worldwide business contacts, capitalism and the start of a world economy
  
• The place of the Dutch Republic in political sense and the economic and cultural development it experienced
  
• The aspiration of monarchs to gain absolute power
  
• The scientific revolution

Was it a ''Golden Age'' for everyone?

Regents

Merchants

Skillful craftsmen

Citizens & day laborers

Poor people

People who use certain skills and techniques to make products from raw materials. This includes painters and scientists.

Poorest people

• The poorest people lived outside of the city.
• There are also poorhouses & workhouses
• A few people are being taken care of by the church.
• If it's your ''own fault'' the church won't help you.

Workhouses are meant to accommodate petty thieves. They have to do penal labour in these houses. This is supposed to teach them a lesson and make them better people.

Freedom

• There was more freedom and tolerance in the Republic than in other countries.

• The rulers of the Republic did not tell the people how to live or what religion to follow.

• Many scholars in the Republic could (usually) write whatever they wanted without being in danger

Science

• It was possible for wealthy residents of the Republic to study at universities.

• 
  Scientists share knowledge and the results of their research..

• Well-known Dutch scientists were Christiaan Huygens and Antoni van Leeuwenhoek

Practise

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