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of this art genre that moves between different
cultural paradigmas, and which arouses the high
appreciation of it today. So what once was seen
as a weakness is now, in contrast, conceived as
powerful. The connected narratives that will
emanate from the corpus, when approaching
these paintings in this way, will make the Dutch
collections more rich, valuable and better
understood. As a result, finally, this shared
cultural repertoire can contribute to raising this
issue higher on the agenda of decision makers at 63
the sites where they are kept.