About 650 results for ‘Low Countries’
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Low Countries
The Low Countries are the historical lands around the low-lying delta of the Rhine, Scheldt, and Meuse rivers, including the modern countries of Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and parts of northern France and western Germany. The term is more appropriate to the era of the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Europe when strong centrally governed nations were slowly forming and territorial governance was in the hands of a noble or of a noble house. Historically, after the Roman denomination of it as Gallia Belgica, the region politically had its origins in Middle Francia, more precisely its northern part which became the Duchy of Lower Lotharingia. After the disintegration of Lower Lotharingia, the Low Countries were brought under the rule of various stronger neighbors. Their possessions can be renamed into the Burgundian Netherlands and the succeeding Habsburg Netherlands, also called the United Seventeen Provinces (up to 1581), and later for the Southern parts as the Spanish Netherlands and Austrian Netherlands, whereas the northern parts formed the autonomous Dutch Republic. At times they reached a form of unity as the United Seventeen Provinces in the 16th Century, and later the United Kingdom of the Netherlands in the 19th Century. The French, Italian and Spanish names for the Netherlands, les Pays-Bas, i Paesi Bassi and los Países Bajos (literally translated "the Low Countries"), are based on this historical context.
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- Artist(s):
- Frans Floris
- Polidoro da Caravaggio
Statue antique drapée, et un prêtre portant une cassette,...
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- Drawing
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- 16th century
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- Artist(s):
- Frans Floris
- Polidoro da Caravaggio
César traversant le Rubicon (?) ou Mucius Scaevola traver...
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- Drawing
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- Date:
- 16th century
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- Artist(s):
- Frans Floris
- Polidoro da Caravaggio
Trophées ; demi-figure de femme, de dos ; trois bustes de...
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- Drawing
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- Date:
- 16th century
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- Artist(s):
- Frans Floris
- Polidoro da Caravaggio
Deux frises : marche triomphale ; groupe de figures avec ...
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- Drawing
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- Date:
- 16th century
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- Artist(s):
- Albrecht Dürer
- Joris Hoefnagel
Lièvre couché, tourné vers la droite
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- Drawing
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- 16th century
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- Artist(s):
- Jan de Beer (painter)
Le Christ en croix entre les deux larrons
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- Drawing
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- Date:
- 15th century
- 16th century
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- Artist(s):
- Jan de Beer (painter)
Hérodiade touche d'un couteau la tête de saint Jean-Baptiste
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- Field(s):
- Drawing
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- Date:
- 15th century
- 16th century
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Deux figures d'apôtres, l'un lisant, l'autre tenant un bâton
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- Field(s):
- Drawing
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- Portrayed subject:
- Reading (process)
- Swagger stick
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- Date:
- 16th century
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- Artist(s):
- Hans Bol
Paysage vallonné et boisé, avec une ville au second plan
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- Field(s):
- Drawing
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- Portrayed subject:
- Landscape
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- Date:
- 16th century
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- Artist(s):
- Hans Bol
Paysage boisé, avec bâtiments au bord d'un étang
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- Field(s):
- Drawing
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- Portrayed subject:
- Landscape
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- Date:
- 16th century
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