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Wealth in the Dutch Golden Age

Season 2018 | 1m 00s

“Showing your wealth was a way of showing you had arrived in society.” Courtney Harris, Curatorial Research Fellow, Art of Europe, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, on the extravagance of the Dutch Golden Age. The Miniaturist premieres Sunday, Sept. 9, 9/8c on MASTERPIECE on PBS.

Funding for MASTERPIECE is provided by Viking and Raymond James with additional support from public television viewers and contributors to The MASTERPIECE Trust, created to help ensure the series’ future.
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