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Dutch Baroque

Refers to a period of tremendous growth in the number of practicing artists and the art market, driven by a prosperous mercantile middle class eager to express its status and its new sense of national pride. Subjects include still lives, portraits (including the group portrait), landscapes, seascapes. These are generally painted naturalistically, with an eye to capturing the materiality of objects, and the specificity of the landscape.

Dates
c. 1600–1700
Places
Europe > Northern Europe > The Netherlands
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