Boterwaag
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The Boterwaag is a former weigh house for butter in The Hague, Netherlands. The right half is a café.
The Boterwaag on the Prinsegracht
Inside the right half before restoration activity in 1980.
Guild of Saint Luke
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The Guild of Saint Luke was the most common name for a city guild for painters and other artists in early modern Europe, especially in the Low Countries. They were named in honour of the Evangelist Lu
Boterwaag
…designed and built it in 1650, after the Prinsegracht canal was dug in 1640. He oversaw both projects in his role as city architect and headman of the Guild of St. Luke. After he died in 1652, the local painters became dissatisfied with the guild and founded the Confrerie Pictura in 1656, which met upstairs. They shared…
The Governors of the Haarlem Guild of St. Luke in 1675. Jan de Bray painted himself second from the left. Surprisingly, fewer such group portraits exist of painters than for other Guild occupations.
1730s engraving of the Delft Guild of St. Luke, by Abraham Rademaker. Today the location of the Vermeer Centre
Printed invitation to other chambers of rhetoric by the Antwerp Violieren, for a landjuweel event, lasting 19 days, in 1561
Judith Leyster self-portrait at 20, three years before she became the second woman to join the Haarlem Guild in 1633