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‘Flanders. Roman Catholicism, political opposition to Spain, & the painter Peter Paul Rubens were all responsible for the astonishing full-blooded character of Flemish Baroque. Rubens' friends Jacques Francart (died 1651[ce]) & Pieter Huyssens created an influential northern centre for vigorous expansive Baroque architecture to which France, England & Germany turned.’

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* – ibid [Encyclopaedia Britannica 13: 1016]

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