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CTyankee

(63,901 posts) Thu Jun 8, 2023, 08:14 PM Jun 2023

I knew the Final Jeopardy questioin tonight because I am an art history major and

was just working on an essay about Vermeer's lutist, concentrating on that lovely instrument and why so many painters painted it...and the question wasn't even about art...so no spoiler here...

Hubby was a little dazed about it...

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I knew the Final Jeopardy questioin tonight because I am an art history major and (Original Post) CTyankee Jun 2023 OP

I had just read it someplace rurallib Jun 2023 #1

You will see the naval map on the wall behind many of his subjects. It was the economic life blood CTyankee Jun 2023 #2

rurallib

(62,406 posts)

1. I had just read it someplace

Reply to CTyankee (Original post)

Thu Jun 8, 2023, 08:17 PM

Jun 2023

and I want to say it was in the context of the slave trade in America. Not sure if that is right, but I seem to remember that

1619 slave trade, 1620 Dutch East India company went public.

CTyankee

(63,901 posts)

2. You will see the naval map on the wall behind many of his subjects. It was the economic life blood

Reply to rurallib (Reply #1)

Thu Jun 8, 2023, 08:24 PM

Jun 2023

of Holland and celebrated in those maps which, I was to learn, was a common household feature in that day.

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