Dutch Golden Age · c. 1608
Hendrick Avercamp 1585–1634
Rijksmuseum · Amsterdam
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Step back four centuries. Hendrick Avercamp painted this tiny circular panel around 1608, yet every inch teems with merchants, nobles, children on skates, and dogs. Deaf and mute from birth, he spent his life watching.
Here is what the ice made possible: an entire society, all ranks, on one frozen canal.
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