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The Siege of Rhenen
Also titled Het beleg van Rhenen
c. 1499 - c. 1525
- Medium
- panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- support: height 182 cm x width 143 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Gift of the Rhenen Council
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
On 8 July 1499, soldiers of the Duke of Guelders marched into the town of Rhenen in the province of Utrecht, setting fire to houses as they went. The Duke was attempting to expand his power base, but the attack failed and his troops retreated.
