Let's work those history muscles and see if we can nail it down to at least a specific decade while still trying to stay on the right side of the evolutionary theory literature
Let's work those history muscles and see if we can nail it down to at least a specific decade while still trying to stay on the right side of the evolutionary theory literature
Hans Holbein's The Ambassadors from 1533 has a ton of references to the development of early capitalism. I just learned this last night but all of the elements in the painting suggest the rise of global mercantilism and decline of the aristocracy, esp the obfuscated skull in the foreground.
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