Cycling the Golden Age
Amsterdam in the 17th century was enjoying its Golden Age. Freed from Spanish Catholic rule after a bitter war, the new Protestant nation had become a major European force thanks to its sea and trading power.
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Vincent van Gogh
Vincent van Gogh was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who posthumously became one of the most famous and influential figures in Western art history. In a decade, he created more than 2,000 artworks, including around 860 oil paintings, most of which date from the last two years of his life.
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Mondrian the Modernist
He was born in Amersfoort about 40 kilometres south of Amsterdam. There is a museum here today in his childhood home dedicated to his life and work.
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Anne Frank
The Anne Frank Museum in Amsterdam is one of the city’s most popular tourist sites and is located in the site of the Frank family’s former home.
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Rembrandt, Vermeer and Hals: Artists of the Dutch Golden Age
In the Netherlands in the 17th century, social status was largely determined by income. The landed nobility had relatively little importance, It was the urban merchant class that dominated Dutch society.
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