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A small brick palace called Huis ten Bosch (House in the Woods). Designed, decorated, and built between 1645 and 1652 for the Princess of Orange, Amalia van ...

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Naturalism is resemblance to the “real world,” as we see it around us. The more naturalistic a work, the more it looks like our world, and the less naturalistic ...

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Pentathlon. The pentathlon was made up of five events which all took place in one afternoon. Running and wrestling also existed as separate events. There are ...

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When the triptych is in the closed position (above), the outer panels, painted in grisaille (monochrome), join to form a perfect sphere—a vision of a planet ...

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The Town Hall, planned as the "eighth wonder," housed city functions, was built in Dutch Classicism, and now serves as a museum and monument.

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Mondrian believed his abstraction could serve as a universal pictorial language representing the dynamic, evolutionary forces that govern nature and human ...

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