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History of Dutch and Flemish painting
Early Netherlandish  (1400 – 1500)
Renaissance painting  (1500 – 1584)
Dutch "Golden Age" painting  (1584 – 1702)
List of Dutch painters
List of Flemish painters


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The Arnolfini portrait by Jan van Eyck.
Flemish painting flourished from the early 15th century until the 17th century. Flanders delivered the leading painters in Northern Europe and attracted many promising young painters from neighbouring countries. These painters were invited to work at foreign courts and had a Europe-wide influence.

Late Gothic

Main article: Early Netherlandish painting
The so-called Flemish "Primitives" were the first to popularize the use of oil paint. Their art has its origins in the miniature painting of the late Gothic period. Chief among them were Jan van Eyck, Hans Memling, Hugo van der Goes and Rogier van der Weyden.

Renaissance

Main article: Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painting
From the early 16th century, the Italian Renaissance started to influence the Flemish painters. The result was very different from the typical Italian Renaissance painting. The leading artist was Pieter Brueghel the Elder.

Baroque

After the Siege of Antwerp (1584-1585), the Southern Provinces of the Netherlands ("Flanders") remained under Spanish rule and were separated from the independent Dutch Republic. Although many artists fled the religious wars and moved from the Southern Netherlands to the Dutch Republic (see Dutch Golden Age painting), Flemish Baroque painting flourished, especially in the Antwerp school, during the seventeenth century under Rubens, Anthony van Dyck, and Jacob Jordaens.

Decline

Following the deaths of major artists like Rubens in 1640 and the end of the Eighty Years War in 1648, the cultural significance of Flanders declined.

A revival of painting in this region came only after the Belgian Revolution of 1830. Painters from this period are categorized as Belgian rather than Flemish (see List of Belgian painters).

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Early Netherlandish painting[1] is a term art historians use to designate the work of a group of painters who were active primarily in the Low Countries in the 15th and early 16th centuries, approximately the period starting with Van Eyck and ending with Gerard David.
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For 15th century Dutch and Flemish painting, see Early Netherlandish painting.

Stylistic evolution

In the late 15th century, when Italian Renaissance influences begin to show, the influence of the Early Netherlandish masters, such as Van Eyck, Rogier van der
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Dutch Golden Age painting is a period of painting in Dutch history. It occurred during the Dutch Golden Age, a period in Dutch history generally spanning the 17th century, in which Dutch trade, science, and art were among the most acclaimed in the world.
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This is a list of painters who were born and/or were primarily active in the Netherlands. For artists born and active in the Southern Netherlands, see the List of Flemish painters. The artists are sorted by century and then alphabetically by last name.
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This is an incomplete list of Flemish painters, with place and date of birth and death and painting style. Painters from later than 1830 belong in the List of Belgian painters.
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15th century was that century which lasted from 1401 to 1500.

Events

  • 1402: Ottoman and Timurid Empires fight at the Battle of Ankara resulting in Timur's capture of Bayezid I.
  • 1402: The conquest of the Canary Islands signals the beginning of the Spanish Empire.

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As a means of recording the passage of time, the 17th Century was that century which lasted from 1601-1700 in the Gregorian calendar.

The 17th Century falls into the Early Modern period of Europe and was characterized by the Baroque cultural movement and the beginning of
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County of Flanders was a historical region in the Low Countries.

It consisted not only of the two actual Belgian provinces of East-Flanders and West-Flanders but also the present-day French département of the Nord (French Flanders), in parts of which there is still a
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Early Netherlandish painting[1] is a term art historians use to designate the work of a group of painters who were active primarily in the Low Countries in the 15th and early 16th centuries, approximately the period starting with Van Eyck and ending with Gerard David.
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Jan van Eyck or Johannes de Eyck (c. 1385 – July 9, 1441) was an Early Netherlandish painter who lived in the then Duchy of Burgundy and is considered one of the great painters of the late Middle Ages.
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Hans Memling (Memlinc) (c. 1430 – 11 August, 1494) was an Early Netherlandish painter, born in Germany, who was the last major fifteenth century artist in the Netherlands, the successor to Jan van Eyck and Rogier van der Weyden, whose tradition he continued with little
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Hugo van der Goes (c. 1440-1482) was a Flemish painter.

Born in Ghent, he entered the artists' guild there in 1467. He was later elected dean of the guild. While serving as the dean he decorated the town of Ghent in celebration of the marriage between Charles the Bold and
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Rogier van der Weyden, also known as Rogier de le Pasture (1399/1400 – June 18, 1464) is, on a par with Jan van Eyck, considered as the greatest exponent of the school of Early Netherlandish painting.
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For 15th century Dutch and Flemish painting, see Early Netherlandish painting.

Stylistic evolution

In the late 15th century, when Italian Renaissance influences begin to show, the influence of the Early Netherlandish masters, such as Van Eyck, Rogier van der
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As a means of recording the passage of time, the 16th century was that century which lasted from 1501 through 1600.

See also: 16th century in literature

Events

1500s

  • 1500s: Mississippian culture disappears.

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The Italian Renaissance began the opening phase of the Renaissance, a period of great cultural change and achievement in Europe that spanned the period from the end of the 14th century to about 1600, marking the transition between Medieval and Early Modern Europe.
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Bruegel

Bruegel's The Painter and The Connoisseur drawn c. 1565 is thought to be a self-portrait
Birth name Pieter Brueghel
c. 1525
Breda, present-day Netherlands or Bree, present-day Belgium, Duchy of Brabant
September 9, 1569
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Siege of Antwerp took place during the Eighty Years' War from July 1584 until August 1585. At the time Antwerp was the largest Dutch city and the cultural, economic and financial centre of the Seventeen Provinces and of north-western Europe.
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Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (or "of the Seven United Low Countries") (Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden/Provinciën; also Dutch Republic or United Provinces in short, Belgica Foederata
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The historical terms Spanish Netherlands and Austrian Netherlands both redirect to here.


The Southern Netherlands
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Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (or "of the Seven United Low Countries") (Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden/Provinciën; also Dutch Republic or United Provinces in short, Belgica Foederata
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Dutch Golden Age painting is a period of painting in Dutch history. It occurred during the Dutch Golden Age, a period in Dutch history generally spanning the 17th century, in which Dutch trade, science, and art were among the most acclaimed in the world.
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The Antwerp School is a term for the artists active in Antwerp, first during the sixteenth century when the city was the economic center of the Low Countries, and then during the seventeenth century when it became the artistic stronghold of the Flemish Baroque under Peter Paul
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Peter Paul Rubens

Birth name Peter Paul Rubens
June 28, 1577
Siegen, Westphalia
May 30, 1640
Antwerp, Flanders
Flemish
Field Painting

Baroque

Peter Paul Rubens
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Sir Anthony van Dyck (many variant spellings [1] See Van Dyke for other uses of all spellings), (22 March 1599 – 9 December 1641) was a Flemish artist who became the leading court painter in England.
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Jacob Jordaens (May 19, 1593 - October 18, 1678), was a Flemish painter from the Baroque period, born in Antwerp.

Biography

Jacob Jordeans was born to Jacob Jordaens Sr., a wealthy linen merchant, and Barbara van Wolschaten on May 19, 1593.
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16th century - 17th century - 18th century
1610s  1620s  1630s  - 1640s -  1650s  1660s  1670s
1637 1638 1639 - 1640 - 1641 1642 1643

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Relief of Leiden (1574). Starved citizens feast on herring and white bread after the siege was lifted.

Date 1568 - 1648
Location The Low Countries
(worldwide colonial warfare)

Result Treaty of Münster;
Independence of the Dutch Republic

Combatants
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8th century - 9th century - 10th century
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Belgian Revolution was a conflict in the United Kingdom of the Netherlands that began with a riot in Brussels in August 1830 and eventually led to the establishment of an independent, Roman Catholic and neutral Belgium (William I, king of the Netherlands, would refuse to recognize
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