Rot A van de kloveniers (Kloveniersdoelen)

They are ready for battle, these members of the Amsterdam Calivermen’s guild. Some lean on their muskets. The inscriptions are a quotation from Seneca which, simply put, means ‘Surrender to fate’, or in Seneca’s terms, nature. In sixteenth-century Amsterdam, nature refers to the unfathomable will of God. Perhaps this explains the fantasy landscape in the background.

Rot A van de kloveniers (Kloveniersdoelen)

They are ready for battle, these members of the Amsterdam Calivermen’s guild. Some lean on their muskets. The inscriptions are a quotation from Seneca which, simply put, means ‘Surrender to fate’, or in Seneca’s terms, nature. In sixteenth-century Amsterdam, nature refers to the unfathomable will of God. Perhaps this explains the fantasy landscape in the background.