![]() ![]() The more azen is weighs, the more money for him. “The heavier the bulb, the more azen it weighs. the whole novel gives a real insight into Amsterdam merchant life at that time. Tulipmania is an interesting theme – how much bulbs were bought and sold for, how much trade and double dealing went on down by the docks. Comely women are tulips their skirts are petals, swinging around the pollen-dusted stigmas of their legs” An artist falls for a young married woman while hes commissioned to paint her portrait during the Tulip mania of 17th century Amsterdam. “Everything he sees speaks Tulips to him. Sophiae(tm)s husband Cornelis is one of the lucky ones grown rich from this exotic new. One of the painters describes the bulbs of the Tulip like a man possessed – Seventeenth-century Amsterdam e a city in the grip of tulip fever. Deborah Moggach’s painting could go alongside any of those artists she admires and includes in the book – Rembrandt, Vermeer amongst others. It’s the literary equivalent of lots of rapid brush strokes smacked and sprayed across a blank canvas of a world poised between religion and secularism, tradition and trade. ![]() Amsterdam is beautifully evoked as is the setting and atmosphere of the dirty noisy canals and the excited panic and greed of the traders.Īlthough historical and quite serious, Tulip Fever is the equivalent of sitting on the knee of a bawdy character in a backstreet bar whilst swigging and spilling their beer as they jolt you up and down. ![]()
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