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The late seventeenth-century Dutch Republic is famed for its production of printed images. In the course of the second half of the seventeenth-century, a number of Dutch publishers and printmakers started to invest themselves in the production of lavishly illustrated ‘coffee table’ books. For this purpose, they turned unillustrated French, German, and English works into extensively illustrated Dutch translations filled with large and newly designed etchings. They revisited successful works produced earlier in the seventeenth-century, such as martyr books and histories on the Eighty Years’ War, producing new images for old texts. Effectively, the Dutch Republic, and Amsterdam in particular, was one of the most important European production centres of printed images, spewing out an enormous amount of high quality etchings and engravings dealing with all manner of subjects: from biblical histories to world-spanning chronicles, and from medical atlases to fantastical travel journals.In this wide variety of printed images produced in the Dutch Republic, explicit violence was a prominent and recurring theme. As has been noted by many historians and art historians, violence was central to

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Author

Michel van Duijnen

Publisher

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Published

2019

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, European History, Humanities