Arts In the 9th century, the Benedictine and Cistercian monks consolidated Christianity in NW Europe, covering it with Romanesque-style monasteries. In the Netherlands the construction of two towers on the façade and the scant decoration, often limited to the capitals, were characteristic. Throughout medieval times, brick was used almost exclusively, due to the lack of…
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Netherlands Culture
Rembrandt is the largest representative of the fine arts in the Netherlands. During the Gothic and Renaissance periods the Netherlands began to experience remarkable artistic development, especially in painting. On the intellectual level, Erasmus of Rotterdam, born in the Netherlands, had a great influence on the cultural life of his country and Europe during the 16th…
Netherlands History Part I
Prehistory The Netherlands has been inhabited since the last Ice Age ; the oldest remains found are 100,000 years old, when the country had a tundra climate with very little vegetation. Its first settlers were hunter-gatherers. [2] At the end of the Ice Age, the area was inhabited by various Paleolithic groups. One of them even made canoes (Pesse, about…
Netherlands History and Politics
Ancient and Middle Ages The history of the Netherlands does not go back very far, at least there are hardly any finds that indicate it. But from the barrows it can be concluded that the country was already inhabited during the Ice Age. In ancient times and at the beginning of the Christian era, the…
Mass media in Netherlands
Press The Dutch-language press is very old. In 1605, Abraham Verhoeven in Antwerp began publishing Nieuwe Tijdingen. It is regarded as the world’s first newspaper, but was not until 1621 characterized by regularly published newspaper. In 1618 two publications began to be published regularly, Caspar van Hiltens Courante uyt Italien and Broer Janszoons Tijdingen uyt…
Netherlands Arts and Literature
Literature, drama and theater The oldest known Dutch writer, Hendrik van Veldeke, lived in the late 12th century in Limburg, which is now partly Belgian. He wrote lyrics and recorded the legend of Servatius, the patron saint of the city of Maastricht, in Middle Dutch. German literature also claims this poet, when he also wrote…
Netherlands Recent History
In January 1942, now as an ally of the United States, Holland declared war on fascist Italy, after breaking diplomatic ties; in December of that year in London the queen, with an official speech, declared Indonesian peoples independent. With the prolongation of the war in Holland, a war that the Germans had considered little more…