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Suzanna van Baerle or Susanna Huygens (8 March 1599 – 10 May 1637) was a Dutch woman known for the book-long poem Dagh-werck that was written as a close collaboration with her husband, Constantijn Huygens.
- 8 March 1599, Amsterdam
- Constantijn Huygens
- 10 May 1637 (aged 38), The Hague
The likeness of Suzanna van Baerle (1599-1637), Huygens’ wife and the mother of their five children, is missing in the painting. Suzanna had died three years earlier, just days after giving birth. Huygens considered this group portrait as homage to his wife.
- 204.2 x 173.9 cm
- canvas
- x preface
- a commemoration xv
- a commemoration xvii
- commemoration xxiii
book – was well received, despite its meagre documentation, and a French translation was quickly published. Yes, Huygens did spend some time in Paris! The present edition, now in the lingua franca that is read all over the world, gives me the opportunity to add the references to my sources. To complete the book still further, I have extended the bi...
Newton’s idea of absolute space, and attempted to solve the problem in words:10 Rotation is a relative motion of parts driven in different directions but kept together by a string or connection. But can one say that two bodies move relative to one another if their separation remains the same? This is perfectly possible, provided an increase in the ...
of invisibly small particles. Therefore the rectilinear propagation of light, as well as its reflection and refraction, could only be explained in terms of a summation of pulses caused by all kinds of collisions between these particles. Despite his mastery of mathematics Huygens could not find satisfactory solutions based on collision theory.18 Rea...
biographer attempting to interpret this melancholy has to venture into barren land, or into emptiness. What is the cause of this debilitating force? It is certainly not mental exhaustion after a period of activity and creativity, as the events of his life make clear. What are the properties of this force? Christiaan does not write about his sufferi...
Suzanna van Baerle (gedoopt Amsterdam, 8 maart 1599 – Den Haag, 10 mei 1637) was de echtgenote van de dichter en diplomaat Constantijn Huygens. Dankzij zijn geschriften is er veel bekend over haar leven, dat zich afspeelde in de hoogste kringen van Nederland.
In 1626 Constantijn fell in love with Suzanna van Baerle after earlier courtship by the Huygens family to win her for his brother Maurits had failed. Constantijn wrote several sonnets for her, in which he calls her Sterre (Star). They wed on 6 April 1627.
Constantijn Huygens and Suzanna van Baerle were Johan Maurits’s future neighbours here on Plein Square in The Hague. The couple had their portrait painted by Jacob van Campen, who also designed the Mauritshuis.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Suzanna van Baerle or Susanna Huygens (8 March 1599 – 10 May 1637) was a Dutch woman known for the book-long poem Dagh-werck that was written as a close collaboration with her husband, Constantijn Huygens.
