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Dutch Golden Age Amsterdam: 1600–1700
Amsterdam · 1600–1700 · exact time + place
A booming 17th-century trade hub full of artists, merchants, and explorers — inspiring many stories and paintings, from Vermeer's studios to tulip mania. The button below opens StoryTerra with both Amsterdam and 1600–1700 already set.
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Browse 5 books, 4 movies and 1 TV show set in Amsterdam.
Tulip Fever
An artist falls for a married young woman while he's commissioned to paint her portrait. The two invest in the risky tulip market in hopes to build a future together.
The Miniaturist
A woman moves to live with her new husband in 17th century Amsterdam, but soon discovers that not everything is what it seems. Based on the adaptation by Jessie Burton.
The Miniaturist
A woman moves to live with her new husband in 17th century Amsterdam but soon discovers that not everything is what it seems.
Rembrandt's J'Accuse...!
J'accuse is an 'essay-istic' documentary in which Greenaway's fierce criticism of today's visual illiteracy is argued by means of a forensic search of Rembrandt's Nightwatch. Greenaway explains the background the…
Nightwatching
An extravagant exotic and moving look at Rembrandt's romantic and professional life and the controversy he created by the identification of a murderer in the painting The Night Watch.
The Miniaturist
Set in seventeenth century Amsterdam--a city ruled by glittering wealth and oppressive religion--a masterful debut steeped in atmosphere and shimmering with mystery, in the tradition of Emma Donoghue, Sarah Waters, and…
The Weight of Ink
An intellectual and emotional jigsaw puzzle of a novel for readers of A. S. Byatt’s Possession and Geraldine Brooks’s People of the Book.Set in London of the 1660s and of the early twenty-first century, The Weight of…
The Spinoza Problem
When sixteen-year-old Alfred Rosenberg is called into his headmaster’s office for anti-Semitic remarks he made during a school speech, he is forced, as punishment, to memorize passages about Spinoza from the…
The Coffee Trader
The Edgar Award–winning novel A Conspiracy of Paper was one of the most acclaimed debuts of 2000. In his richly suspenseful second novel, author David Liss once again travels back in time to a crucial moment in cultural…
Tulip Fever
A tale of art, beauty, lust, greed, deception and retribution -- set in a refined society ablaze with tulip fever.In 1630s Amsterdam, tulipomania has seized the populace. Everywhere men are seduced by the fantastic…
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