Answer:
Antwerp served as the commercial and artistic center of the Netherlands. Art became a precious commodity because there was a demand for luxury goods.
Explanation:
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Antwerp helped the economy by serving as the commercial and artistic center of the Netherlands.
Antwerp is known as the diamond capital of the world and the diamond industry plays an important role in the economy of the city and has done throughout its history. During the 16th Century the city was one of the most important places, and one of the most important ports in all of Europe.
The outbreak of the Dutch Revolt during the last third of the sixteenth century severely disrupted the economy of the Southern Netherlands, and as a result, the Antwerp art market collapsed in the mid-1580s. However, in the difficult closing years of the sixteenth century, a transformation process began to take shape in which the foundations were laid for yet a new era of cultural eminence for the city of Antwerp.
Artists were, in short, bourgeois, and they wanted pictures that reflected the contentment of bourgeois prosperity: portraits, interiors, genre-paintings (scenes of everyday life) and affluent looking still life's, painted on canvases of moderate size, to hang in ordinary houses.
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