Muiderkring
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In the Golden Age of the Dutch Republic, roughly equivalent to the later half of the 17th century, the Muiderkring was the name given to a group of figures in the arts and sciences who regularly met at the castle of Muiden near Amsterdam. The central figure was the poet Hooft; Constantijn Huygens, Sweelinck, Vondel, Bredero and the sisters Anna Visscher and Maria Tesselschade Visscher and were considered part of the group.
Recent research has however shown that the idea of poets and artists meeting at the castle was a fiction. In fact, these artists probably never met at that spot and the Muiderkring probably never existed. The main figures related to the Muiderkring did, however, know each other.
