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The leading architect of his time in Holland was Hendrick de Keyser, whose Protestant churches represented a building type that soon spread throughout northern Netherlands and the coastal regions of Germany as far as Danzig. The model for these churches was de Keyser's Westerkerk in Amsterdam, a centrally planned building in the shape of a patriarchal cross (two Greek crosses connected with each other). Simplified forms and adoption of the antique order of columns distinguished this architect's work from the Baroque forms that were still prevalent.
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