Going Dutch by Lisa Jardine5/11/2023 Cross-border fertilization resulted in two of the greatest painters of the age-Peter Paul Rubens and Anton van Dyck-working for English patrons while esteemed members of the Royal Society (such as Isaac Newton) corresponded with their Netherlandish counterparts (such as Christian Huygens). Jardine focuses mainly on the “subterranean” intellectual, cultural and scientific intersections between the two countries and finds that contacts were “continuous and mutually advantageous” for decades before William's invasion. She explores the fascinating Anglo-Dutch relationship to answer how and why two sworn foes became friends so seamlessly. England's almost bloodless “Glorious Revolution” of 1688, in which the Dutch king William of Orange overthrew James II, began as a hostile takeover but rapidly turned into a friendly merger, according to British historian Jardine ( The Awful End of Prince William the Silent
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