Twee drempeldichten 1618

“Twee drempeldichten,” or “Two Threshold Poems,” was created by Dutch painter Jan van de Velde I in 1618. The artwork is a handwritten text on two pages, each with a poem that celebrates Mariam Strick. The left poem is a sonnet praising her skills as a calligrapher while the right poem is a lofdicht which is a type of Dutch poem that praises the virtues of a person. This piece is in the collection of the Rijksmuseum. The poems in the text of the artwork are written in Dutch, a language that is still spoken today. This artwork is an example of Dutch Renaissance art.