Dutch art

Dutch art, the art of the region that is now the Netherlands. As a distinct national style, this art dates from about the turn of the 17th cent., when the country emerged as a political entity and developed a clearly independent culture.

Sections in this article:

• Introduction
• Sculpture and the Minor Arts
• The Twentieth Century
• The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
• The Flowering of Dutch Art: The Seventeenth Century
• Early History
• Bibliography

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