Some notable artistic styles and trends include Haarlem Mannerism, Utrecht Caravaggism, the School of Delft, the Leiden fijnschilders, and Dutch classicism.

The brief flourishing of Utrecht Caravaggism ended around 1630, when major artists had either died, as in the case of Baburen and Terbrugghen, or had changed style, like Honthorst's shift to portraiture and history scenes informed by the Flemish tendencies popularized by Rubens and his followers.

Utrecht Caravaggism refers to those Baroque artists, all distinctly influenced by the art of Caravaggio, who were active mostly in the Dutch city of Utrecht during the early part of the seventeenth century.

The brief flourishing of Utrecht Caravaggism ended around 1630, when major artists had either died, as in the case of Baburen and Terbrugghen, or had changed style, like Honthorst's shift to portraiture and history scenes informed by the Flemish tendencies popularized by Peter Paul Rubens and his followers.

The Holy See accepts as valid the ordinations of the Old Catholics in communion with Utrecht, as well as the Polish National Catholic Church ( which received its orders directly from Utrecht, and was — until recently — part of that communion ); but Roman Catholicism does not recognise the orders of any group whose teaching is at variance with what they consider the core tenets of Christianity ; this is the case even though the clergy of the Independent Catholic groups may use the proper ordination ritual.

* Treaty of Utrecht, a group of treaties in 1713, most notably one between France and Great Britain, that ended the War of the Spanish Succession (" Queen Anne's War ")

In 1884 a group of Boer farmers from the districts of Utrecht and Vryheid undertook to restore order, in return for land for the formation of an independent republic.

On their return to the north this group, known as the " Utrecht Caravaggisti ", had a short-lived but influential flowering in the 1620s among painters like Hendrick ter Brugghen, Gerrit van Honthorst, Andries Both and Dirck van Baburen.

A group of Knights of St. John, at Utrecht, supposed to have been painted about 1541 ; a picture of two pilgrims at the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, dated 1544 ; together with the portrait of an unknown woman, in the Lille gallery, were probably among his earliest works although their authenticity has not been proved.

He has been exhibiting since 1988 with group shows in places such as the Collective Gallery ( Edinburgh ), The National Portrait Gallery ( London ), Casco ( Utrecht ), ICA ( London ), Art in General ( New York ), Star67 ( Brooklyn ), Gallery Korea ( New York ) and solo shows at Carnera ( Adria ), Bond Gallery ( Birmingham ), Sesto Senso, Graffio, Villa Serena ( Bologna ), 42contemporaneo, Studio Vetusta, Paggeriarte ( Modena ), and MelePere ( Verona ).

In 1989 Ingram Micro, then " Ingram Micro-D " a subsidiary of the privately owned Ingram Industries group, took over the Belgian Softinvest and its three Softeurop subsidiaries active on the Belgian, the French and the Dutch markets from Brussels, Lille and Utrecht.

During a Kinks Meeting in Utrecht, Netherlands, in September 2004, he read excerpts from Veritas, his fictional account of a 1960s rock group.

Stoichkov is the name of a Dutch rock group, founded 2001 in Utrecht, Netherlands, by three great fans of the Bulgarian football star and former national trainer Hristo Stoichkov.

As a group they have a long tradition in iconography, dating back to the 9th century ; the Utrecht Psalter of 830 is an example.

According to local legend in Utrecht, she led a large group of women on May 2, 1577 to the castle of Vredenburg and gave the signal to begin demolishing the castle.

This theme played out with many artists from the Low Countries in the first few decades of the 17th century, where it became associated with the Utrecht Caravaggisti like Gerrit van Honthorst and Dirck van Baburen, and with Flemish Baroque painters such as Jacob Jordaens.

It is not known whether he began his studies under the Master of Alkmaar, Pieter Gerritsz in Haarlem, Jacob Cornelisz in Amsterdam, or with Jan Gossaert in Utrecht but it is certain that the last two were the master painters he would meet later in his life and who would have the greatest effect on his technique.

Weenix was a member of the Utrecht guild of painters in 1664 and 1668.

He and his older brothers, the painters Jan and Caesar van Everdingen, according to Arnold Houbraken, were taught by Roelandt Savery at Utrecht.

In 1611, along with Paulus Moreelse, he was one of the founders of a new Utrecht painters ' guild, called " St. Lucas-gilde ", and became its deken in 1618.

Between approximately 1604 and 1607 Lastman was in Africa, where he was influenced by Caravaggio ( as were the painters of the Utrecht School a few years later ) and by Adam Elsheimer.

* English Baroque 1666 ( Great Fire )– 1713 ( Treaty of Utrecht )

Recent Pantagruel performances have taken place at the Münster Baroque Festival, Utrecht Early Music Festival, Aachen Bach Festival and the National Portrait Gallery in London.

His paintings reflect the Baroque naturalism of Caravaggio, but this probably reached him through the Dutch Caravaggisti of the Utrecht School and other Northern ( French and Dutch ) contemporaries.

1989: Horizonte-Berliner Festspiele / 1991: Istanbul Festival / 1992: Romanischer Sommer, Köln / 1993: Internationale Funkausstellung, Berlin / 1994: Abbaye de Sylvanès / 1995: Stimmen Lörrach / 1996: Copenhagen, Cultural Capital of Europe / 1997: Thessaloniki, Cultural Capital of Europe / Jerusalem 2000 / Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival / 1998: 900 Jahre Hildegard von Bingen / Baalbek-Festival, Lebanon / Festival Oude Muziek, Utrecht / 1999: Boston Early Music Festival / Festival van Vlaanderen, Bruges / 2000: Library of Congress, Washington / Spitalfields Festival, London / Styriarte, Graz / 2001: Lufthansa Baroque Festival, London / 2002: Dresdner Festspiele / Bruges, Cultural Capital of Europe / 2003: Madrid / Sevilla / Festival de Menton / 2004: Ludwigsburger Festspiele / Vezelay Cathedral / 2005: Komische Oper, Berlin / Rheingau Musik Festival / 2006: Frauenkirche Dresden / Lincoln Center, New York / 2007: Konzerthaus, Vienna / Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Rome / Singapore Arts Festival / 2008: Berlin Philharmonie, Théâtre de la Ville Paris / 2009: Sheik Zayed Book Award, Abu Dhabi / Beethovenfest Bonn / Musikvereinssaal Wien / 2010: Schwetzinger Festspiele / Flanders Festival, Brügge / Ruhrtriennale Bochum.

He left school at 11 to be apprenticed to his father and enrolled at night school before working as a draughtsman for C. J. Begeer, a jeweller in Utrecht, from 1906 to 1911.

In 1806, the French occupants of the Netherlands downgraded Utrecht University to an école secondaire ( high school ), but after the establishment of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in 1813 it regained its original status.

Leiden, Groningen and Utrecht were the three universities () of the new state, and Leiden received the title of eerste hoge school (" first university ").

In 1392 Thomas followed his brother, Jan, to Deventer in the Bishopric of Utrecht, in order to attend the noted Latin school.

She grew up in the Dutch city of Utrecht, where she attended the MULO Regentesseschool high school.

In 1700 he was appointed teacher of history and eloquence at the Herborn gymnasium, in 1704 vice-principal of the school at the Hague, and in 1716 he succeeded ( with Drakenborch as colleague ) to the professorship formerly held by Peter Burmann at Utrecht.

The pastor, Theodorus Aemilius, adopted Jacobus and sent him to school at Utrecht ; but he died in 1574.

After high school, Terlouw studied at Utrecht University were he obtained an MSc degree in mathematics and physics and a PhD degree in nuclear physics.

His grandfather, a school teacher and the patriarch of the De la Rey family in South Africa came from Utrecht, Netherlands.

After Gerard't Hooft passed his high school exams in 1964, he enrolled in the physics program at Utrecht University.

After attending a Jesuit school in Katwijk, he graduated in psychology from the University of Utrecht in 1926.

After the war she went to high school and studied art in Utrecht and in Paris with Paul Colin.

* a research school at Utrecht University

In Utrecht, Wagenaar became a teacher at the music school in 1896, and the school's director in 1904.

After finishing high school Lagendijk studied history at the University of Utrecht.

Poor health as a child meant that he was educated at home until age 13, but in 1912, after three years study at the gymnasium ( high school ), Pijper entered the Utrecht Academy of Music, where he was taught composition by Johan Wagenaar, passing examinations in theoretical subjects in 1915.

Other books associated with the Rheims school include the Utrecht Psalter, which was perhaps the most important of all Carolingian manuscripts, and the Bern Physiologus, the earliest Latin edition of the Christian allegorical text on animals.

The expressive animations of the Rheims school, in particular the Utrecht Psalter with its naturalistic expressive figurine line drawings, would have influence on northern medieval art for centuries to follow, into the Romanesque period.

He subsequently became a pupil of Willem Willemz and Augusteyn of Delft, until Anthonie van Montfoort ( Houbraken calls him Antony Blokland ), who had seen and admired two of Mierevelt's early engravings, Christ and the Samaritan and Judith and Holofernes, invited him to enter his school at Utrecht.

Every autumn however he came back to Utrecht to teach at the cathedral school.