🕰️ Imagine an October morning in 1650, in the richest city on Earth. Step inside the home of merchant Jacob van der Meer and discover what daily life was really like during the Dutch Golden Age: the smells, the sounds, the food, the hygiene, the servants, the children, and the secrets of a house built on thousands of wooden piles.
In this video we walk through a narrow Amsterdam canal house from the facade to the attic, and live one full day: from the maid lighting the peat fire before dawn to the family's last prayer at night.
🔎 In this reconstruction you'll discover:
• Why Amsterdam houses were so narrow
• Why people slept almost sitting up
• Why children drank beer at breakfast
• How people bathed (or didn't) in the 17th century
• Tulip mania and the invention of the stock exchange
• The dark side of the spice trade
• How food was preserved without refrigerators
⏱️ CHAPTERS
Dawn in Amsterdam, 1650
Introduction
The street and the canals
The facade of the house
The entrance hall and sitting room
Bedrooms and kitchen
Trijntje, the maid
Breakfast and prayer
The Exchange and trade
The main meal
Food preservation
Children, school and games
The whole world inside one house
Night falls on Amsterdam
🎨 This video is a historical reconstruction created with artificial intelligence, based on chronicles, notarial inventories, city maps and period paintings (Vermeer, Pieter Claesz, Rembrandt and others). Everyday scenes include narrative license.
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