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<p>[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 9508111, member: 2844"]In the Low Countries aristocracy wasn't nearly as important as elsewhere in Europe. In fact many towns rather did without aristocracy.</p><p>That is how and why The Netherlands became the first modern republic. It also led to art that celebrated middle and even lower classes, including many mundane scenes, rather than kings and cardinals. </p><p>People wanted to see themselves in art, and laugh at themselves.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 9508111, member: 2844"]In the Low Countries aristocracy wasn't nearly as important as elsewhere in Europe. In fact many towns rather did without aristocracy. That is how and why The Netherlands became the first modern republic. It also led to art that celebrated middle and even lower classes, including many mundane scenes, rather than kings and cardinals. People wanted to see themselves in art, and laugh at themselves.[/QUOTE]
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