He encountered constraining influences from Islam throughout the area, recognizing the lack of religious freedom to become a Christian.
In their simplicity and semi-abstract formalism, they foreshadow more modern works such as those of Mondrian and Feininger.
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Saenredam's paintings frequently show medieval churches, usually Gothic, but sometimes late Romanesque, which had been stripped bare of their original decorations after the iconoclasm of the Protestant Reformation.
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