Sentenced in court
From the series Queer stories
The Town Hall on Dam Square, Amsterdam Gerrit Adriaensz Berckheyde (1638–1698), oil on canvas, 1693
Historically and culturally, the City Hall on Dam Square (now the Royal Palace) is Amsterdam’s most significant 17th-century building. It was important as a courthouse and later as a palace, when the French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte annexed the Netherlands into his empire.
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