Bold and the Beautiful: In Flemish Portraits

Bold and the Beautiful: In Flemish PortraitsMen in stately black, women with huge ruffs, children with golden rattles, old women with wizened faces, and self satisfied artists These are the main players in just about every portrait ever painted in the Southern Netherlands. From the 15th to the 17th centuries, the tract of land that we today call Flanders was the economic, cultural, intellectual and financial heart of Europe. And money flows with everyone who could afford it investing in a

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a symbol of the anomie which pervades so much of the modern world

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