Size doesn’t matter. How one small region spawned the greatest artists of all time.

They say good things come in small packages, but this is ridiculous. How did a region as geographically insignificant as the Low Countries – what’s now the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg – overhaul the art world: inventing oil painting and master-painters Rembrandt, Vermeer, Van Gogh, Mondrian and Magritte?
Art expert Andrew Graham-Dixon investigates how this tiny region changed art forever in this art history documentary.
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