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Sint Bavo Kerk in Haarlem on the Grote Markt, today, and as represented by the painter Gerrit Berkheyde in 1674. TRAVEL DIARIES Haarlem 6-18...

Aelbert Cuyp, The Maas at Dordrecht Dordrecht 6-16-10 I drove south towards the delta of the great rivers with the intention...

SAN DIEGO-MINNEAPOLIS-AMSTERDAM 6-14-10 My uncle in Holland has the collected diaries of Thomas Mann, and I am bemused by the fact that Mann...

Francesco Petrarca (1304-1374) Petrarch contemplating Laura (No information on this picture is available) Canzoniere (Rerum vulgarium fragme...

Lamoral, Count of Egmont, Prince of Gavere (1522-1568) On 4 June, 1568, the Count of Egmont was condemned to death by the Spanish army un...

Jacob van Ruysdael, View of Haarlem , 1665 "Water and windmills, greenness, Islets green;— Willows wh...

Socrates [click on the photos to view larger size] Herodotus puts the following defiant words in the mouth of the Persi...