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Towards the end of the first millennium the land we now call the Netherlands was ruled by a number of feudal lords — assorted counts, dukes, and bishops who had total power over the land and the people who lived on it.
The area was dominated in the past by the papacy, which conquered the Lombard dukes of Spoleto in the Middle Ages, Perugia in the 16th century, and held sway until the unification of Italy.
Later, the island became part of the commercial empires of Pisa, Genoa, and the Spanish, and was annexed in 1718 by the dukes of Savoy.
The paintings are displayed just as the dukes themselves hung them, two-, three-, and four-high, by personal preference rather than in historical sequence.
Once the home of the Dukes of Bragança, it fell into disrepair and was reconstructed from ruin in the 1930s.