The Master of Allegory: The Life and Legacy of Johannes Voorhout In the luminous era of the Dutch Golden Age, a period defined by mercantile prosperity and an unprecedented flourishing of the arts, few artists captured the intersection of historical gravity and symbolic elegance as gracefully as Johannes Voorhout. Born in 1647 to a family of skilled craftsmen—his father, Cornelis, was a respected Amsterdam clockmaker—Voorhout’s journe…