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The fall of Antwerp was a major event in the Eighty Years' War, when the Spanish forces under Alessandro Farnese besieged and captured the Dutch city in 1585. The siege lasted over a year and involved the construction of a bridge over the Scheldt river to blockade the trade of Antwerp.
Antwerp Citadel (Spanish: Castillo de Amberes, Dutch: Kasteel van Antwerpen) was a pentagonal bastion fort built to defend and dominate the city of Antwerp in the early stages of the Dutch Revolt. It has been described as "doubtlesse the most matchlesse piece of modern Fortification in the World" [1] and as "one of the most studied urban ...
Ancient coins found by Indiana Jones enthusiast sell for $176,000. ... While the auction house expected the sale to garner about $100,000, it actually brought in more than $176,000, ...
Jean Taffin (1529–1602), was a Dutch Walloon minister and theologian.. Biography. He was born in Tournai in 1528 to a noble family and travelled to Italy where he studied in Padua before returning north.
A Roman Catholic church with Gothic and Baroque features, located at the Veemarkt in Antwerp, Belgium. It has paintings by Rubens, van Dyck and Jordaens, and a Calvary with 63 life-size statues and reliefs.
"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Archaeologists digging through a French cliffside located a 200-year-old message in a bottle.
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Alexander van Bredael (1 April 1663 – 14 July 1720) was a Flemish painter known for Italianate landscapes and genre scenes of fairs, cattle markets and villages. He was a prominent member of the Antwerp artistic family van Bredael.