Amsterdam it was originally a Catholic people without being anti-Protestant. At the end of the XNUMXth century the Reformed Calvinist Orthodox Church. Agnosticism and atheism, however, reign in Amsterdam.
Religious tolerance is a tradition in Amsterdam. Since World War II, successive waves of immigration have introduced different religions to the city. Immigrants from the former colonies (Indonesia, Suriname and the Caribbean) and workers from Türkiye y Morocco contributed their beliefs. Islam is now the second religion in Amsterdam.
From the almost complete painting flamenco From the 1390th century, Jan Van Eyck (1441-1450) Hieronymus Bosch (1516-1525), Peter Bruegel the Elder (1569-1606) stand out. The Golden Age of Dutch painting, however, lies in the 1669th century with Rembrandt (1632-1675), Vermeer (XNUMX-XNUMX) and French Neck (1585-1666). Unlike their predecessors, none of the three made the mandatory pilgrimage to Italy to study the teachers. In the XNUMXth century, however, painters simply copied the French style.
The greatest painter of the XNUMXth century was Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890), who painted during his stay in Arles, paintings with bright colors. At the beginning of the XNUMXth century, Piet Mondrian (1872-1944) developed his own style by reducing form and color to its simplest expression. After the Second World War, Karel Appel (1921-2006) participates in a movement that rebelled against artistic conventions: abstract expressionism.
In the past, church leaders were austere and saw the music like sheer frivolity. It was necessary to wait for the seventeenth century for the organ it will be tolerated in the church. Therefore, Amsterdam He contributed relatively little to the world's musical heritage, making the current vibrancy of his music scene all the more remarkable.
The city has a rich tradition theatrical dating back to the time medieval, and that today is still very dynamic.