https://socialhistoryofart.webs.com/apps/photos/ 17th Netherlands https://socialhistoryofart.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=111862527 111862527 https://socialhistoryofart.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=97982211 97982211 https://socialhistoryofart.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=93075328 93075328 https://socialhistoryofart.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=67297807 67297807 See my essay on the politics of motherhood, nursing, and cooking in 17th century Dutch culture, and the rise of a new attentive parenting aimed at transforming male values as well. https://socialhistoryofart.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=75261197 75261197 https://socialhistoryofart.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=98576789 98576789 https://socialhistoryofart.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=98443457 98443457 one of 6 details taken of this compendium of Dutch Baroque vanitas symbolism. The Toledo Museum is superb, especially for Baroque art, but it also has good Renaissance and 18th century art. https://socialhistoryofart.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=97273696 97273696 https://socialhistoryofart.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=98956393 98956393 https://socialhistoryofart.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=98956394 98956394 https://socialhistoryofart.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=98956395 98956395 https://socialhistoryofart.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=179920457 179920457 https://socialhistoryofart.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=179920458 179920458 https://socialhistoryofart.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=150358096 150358096 https://socialhistoryofart.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=150358097 150358097 https://socialhistoryofart.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=101933735 101933735 This painting satirizes Dutch middle class fears about the "new woman" - independent, unchaperoned, extravagant, and sexually dissipated. All this is discussed at greater length in my essay on this work posted here under ESSAYS BY PERIOD (17th century Northern). https://socialhistoryofart.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=97810066 97810066 This painting satirizes Dutch middle class fears about the "new woman" - independent, unchaperoned, extravagant, and sexually dissipated. All this is discussed at greater length in my essay on this work posted here under ESSAYS BY PERIOD (17th century Northern). https://socialhistoryofart.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=97810065 97810065 Currier Museum (Manchester) / See my essay on this painting in ESSAYS BY PERIOD which discusses changing Dutch burgher values, here adopting a fable of courtly extravagance without embarrassment https://socialhistoryofart.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=67297809 67297809 Richmond Museum of Art - https://socialhistoryofart.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=122139605 122139605 https://socialhistoryofart.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=99405021 99405021 https://socialhistoryofart.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=99405022 99405022 https://socialhistoryofart.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=128111418 128111418 https://socialhistoryofart.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=128111421 128111421 https://socialhistoryofart.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=128111419 128111419 https://socialhistoryofart.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=128111420 128111420 https://socialhistoryofart.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=146262049 146262049 https://socialhistoryofart.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=146262050 146262050 https://socialhistoryofart.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=159047555 159047555 https://socialhistoryofart.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=159047556 159047556 An extremely courtly interpretation of the Biblical parable which contrasts the wealth and refinement of the father's home with the poverty of the profligate son. The nude statues decorating the fireplace and the other luxurious furnishings do not work as a moralizing contrast to the son's poverty in line with conventional vanitas imagery., This is, after all, the house of the good father who is already outside restoring wealth and social position to his penitent son. If this reading is correct, the painting uses the parable not to question wealth but to distinguish between its virtuous consumption in an elegant but moral palace and its squandering in a seedy tavern amidst prostitutes. https://socialhistoryofart.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=159047557 159047557 https://socialhistoryofart.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=159047558 159047558 https://socialhistoryofart.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=159047559 159047559 https://socialhistoryofart.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=159047560 159047560 https://socialhistoryofart.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=159047561 159047561 https://socialhistoryofart.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=179920507 179920507 https://socialhistoryofart.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=179920512 179920512 https://socialhistoryofart.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=179920511 179920511 https://socialhistoryofart.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=99405020 99405020 https://socialhistoryofart.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=179920509 179920509 https://socialhistoryofart.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=179920510 179920510 https://socialhistoryofart.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=181910112 181910112 https://socialhistoryofart.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=181910113 181910113 https://socialhistoryofart.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=190536180 190536180