What does The Night Watch have to tell us about social class in seventeenth-century Amsterdam?

a) Although there is a clear hierarchy of wealth and nobility, anyone in the association could put up the price to be included in the portrait.
b) Seventeenth-century Amsterdam had strict distinctions between the classes and only the upper classes could choose to have their portraits painted.
Consider This: How was the artist of The Night Watch paid for his work? See 2.5: Narrative: Shooters and Painters.
c) Amsterdam society was totally disorganized, like the painting, which was not carefully regimented like other paintings of its type.
Consider This: How was the artist of The Night Watch paid for his work? See 2.5: Narrative: Shooters and Painters.
d) The Night Watch has little to say about social hierarchy in this period.
Consider This: How was the artist of The Night Watch paid for his work? See 2.5: Narrative: Shooters and Painters.


a) Although there is a clear hierarchy of wealth and nobility, anyone in the association could put up the price to be included in the portrait.

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