The Protestant Crusade in Holland.

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Series 1 • Episode 12 • The Protestant Crusade in Holland

The artwork is "The Ratification of the Peace of Münster".

Painted in 1648, by Gerard ter Borch, 1617 to 1681.

It depicts the treaty between Spain and the Dutch Republic, signed in the town hall of Münster, Westphalia on 15 May 1648. 

The music is Ave Verum Corpus – Composed by William Byrd and performed by The Sixteen.

William Byrd, circa 1540 to 4 July 1623, was an English Renaissance composer.

Considered among the greatest composers of the Renaissance, he had a profound influence on composers both from his native country and on the Continent.

He is often considered as one of England's most important composers of early music. 

Byrd wrote in many of the forms current in England at the time, including various types of sacred and secular polyphony, keyboard and consort music. 

He produced sacred music for Anglican services, but during the 1570s became a recusant Catholic, writing Catholic sacred music, later in his life