Day 83: Naar Amsterdam!

On Sunday I went to Amsterdam again to see a museum exhibition at the Nieuwe Kerk. it was called 'Black is Beautiful' and was about how dutch artists have portrayed black people over the centuries. I read about the exhibition in this Financial Post article:
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/23ba792e-6a59-11dd-83e8-0000779fd18c.html?nclick_check=1
It was an interesting exhibition. I learned some interesting things such as that many families in the 17th century would have a black page drawn into their family portrait, even though they probably did not even have a page. It was only a status symbol. As well there was a painting by a dutch artist that showed Moses with his Ethiopian wife. During the middle ages, this part had been edited out of the bible, that Moses had two wives, one of whom was black. But, the artist was a biblical scholar and was inspired by the passage describing Moses' black wife and decided to do a painting of them.
I also went to this interesting bar, with specialty liqeuers. Not really my thing, but I tried two flavours, strawberry and an herbal one with a secret freemason recipe. The second one was a bit tasy. The bar was very old and had a nice atmosphere.