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Renaissance in the Low Countries

  • Dutch and Flemish Renaissance paintingIn the early 1500s, Antwerp stood as the most important artistic centre in the Low Countries. Artists flocked to this bustling port city to work for European…
  • Franco-Flemish SchoolThe year 1384 marked the beginning of a personal union between the House of Valois-Burgundy and several fiefs in what is now Northern France, Belgium, and…
  • Renaissance humanism in Northern EuropeRenaissance humanism arrived in Germany and Northern Europe much later than it did in Italy. When the movement finally took root, it faced resistance from…