Rocking the Cradle of Dutch Domesticity: A Radical Reinterpretation of Seventeenth-century “Homescapes”

In the light of a newly discovered source of thousands of seventeenth-century Dutch letters found in the English National Archive a case is made for a radical reinterpretation of seventeenth-century Dutch paintings. These so-called “homescapes” feature in the historiography of the modern home as proof of the fact that seventeenth-century Holland...