Exhibition Pride of place: Dutch cityscapes of the Golden Age (National Galleryof Art)

Exhibition Pride of place: Dutch cityscapes of the Golden Age (National Gallery of Art, Washington)
8 February–3 May 2009
In the 17th century a new genre of painting — the cityscape — emerged, fostered by the booming economy of the Dutch Republic and its affluent urbanites. Images of towns and cities became expressions of enormous civic pride. [...]