Muiderkring

The Muiderkring ( larger needles [ ˌ mœy̑dəɾ kɾɪŋ ] " Muiderkreis ") was a Dutch community of the first half of the 17th century by the poet and historian Pieter Hooft Corneliszoon. The circle is named after the castle of Muiden in the province of North Holland.

Since 1621 met scholars and writers together every summer to about literature - and to discuss music and cultivate the arts - mainly poetry and drama. Among the participants were, inter alia, the literati Caspar van Baerle, Gerhard Johannes Vossius, Joost van den Vondel and Constantijn Huygens and singer Francisca Duarte and the graphic designer and cartographer Willem Janszoon Blaeu. Your aesthetics theoretical work exerted a decisive influence on Dutch literature, which developed from the Renaissance tradition of the rhetoricians to a golden age in the Golden Age.