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Topic: How were the arts in the Netherlands gendered in the sixteenth century?  How were women and men presented?  What were the roles assigned to each?   How were they shown interrelating? And what were the difficulties in forming an artistic image for the two genders?  Please discuss more than one medium in answering this question.

Instruction: 1200 – 1500 words. 

Please formulate an argument.  You do not need to answer every query in the larger question, but you do need to treat each issue as a comprehensive phenomenon.  Please discuss specific works as examples of your arguments and refer to the readings of the course were helpful or appropriate.