It also brings historical context to many issues that are still hotly debated by scholars. 18th-century views of Dutch art in the golden age Lyckle de Vries 3. Dutch nationality in the shadow of the ...

According to the inscription on a 16th-century oil painting of the event ... and the author of The Frigid Golden Age: Climate Change, the Little Ice Age and the Dutch Republic, 1560-1720.

But it was not enough to stop art thieves forcing open the back door and making off with it for a third time. One of the Old Masters of the Dutch Golden Age, Frans Hals painted the work in 1626.