Dutch School of Painting

17th century. Its greatest representative was Rembrandt, but it boasted innumerable other great names. As was natural to the art of a Protestant and wholly commercial country. the subjects affected are those of real life, domestic scenes, landscapes, cattle-pieces, and still life. This school represents the great prosperity and high civilization of the early arly Dutch Republic. The galleries of 458 IMG:content-1227.png:[graphic] Amsterdam, the Hague, and Haarlem, are especially strong in its works. Next to these is the Dresden Gallery. came to New York as Director of the National Conservatory of Music, and at once began to stimulate an interest in American music, advising his students to study the characteristics of the slave songs of the South and other popular melodies. Their value as artistic material he exemplified in 1893 by composing a symphony From the New World , and a string quartet and quintet in the spirit of American Folk music.