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Seventeenth-century Holland produced an art unlike anything else in Europe: no court, almost no church commissions, and instead an open market in which still life, landscape, seascape and the domestic interior were invented as commercial categories.

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Seventeenth-century Holland produced an art unlike anything else in Europe: no court, almost no church commissions, and instead an open market in which still life, landscape, seascape and the domestic interior were invented as commercial categories.
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