The Miniaturist

On an autumn day in 1686, eighteen-year-old Nella Oortman knocks at the door of a grand house in the wealthiest quarter of Amsterdam. She has come from the country to begin a new life as the wife of illustrious merchant trader Johannes Brandt, but instead she is met by his sharp-tongued sister, Marin.

Set in

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  Herengracht · Netherlands

  Golden Age canal house
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  Kalverstraat · Netherlands

  busy Amsterdam shopping street where Nella visits the miniaturist's shop
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  Amsterdam Stadhuis · Netherlands

  17th-century Amsterdam town hall on the Dam where Johannes is jailed and tried
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• Rijksmuseum · Netherlands

  cabinet house inspiration