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"Flora and Zephyr" by Brueghel the Elder and Rubens

"Flora" bloomed in January 1637, Amsterdam, when her price increased by 2000 times over the course of three weeks. The Dutch referred to the reign of the Tulps in the 1630s as windhandel, “trading in the wind”, which for some meant the freedom and unregulated activity, to some, difficulties in predicting the weather and navigating in it, and to others a bundle of mere papers flying in the air.

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