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Pham Van Dong

(Encyclopedia)Pham Van Dong: see Dong, Pham Van. ...

Balen, Hendrik van

(Encyclopedia)Balen, Hendrik van hĕnˈdrĭk vän bäˈlən [key], 1575–1632, Flemish painter, b. Antwerp. Van Balen usually provided the figures for scenes in which another painter, frequently Jan Brueghel, desi...

Orley, Bernard van

(Encyclopedia)Orley, Bernard van bäˈrənt [key], c.1491–1542, Flemish painter. In 1515 he was settled in Brussels, where he became court painter to Margaret of Austria, regent of the Netherlands, and to her suc...

Dou, Gerard

(Encyclopedia)Dou, Dow, or Douw, Gerard or Gerrit all: gāˈrärt, gĕrˈĭt dou [key], 1613–1675, Dutch genre and portrait painter of Leiden. The son of a glass painter, he was apprenticed to an engraver and wor...

Utrecht , province, Netherlands

(Encyclopedia)Utrecht yo͞oˈtrĕkt, Du. üˈtrĕkht [key], province (1994 pop. 1,056,000), c.500 sq mi (1,290 sq km), central Netherlands. Utrecht (the capital) and Amersfoort are the chief cities. It largely comp...

baroque, in art and architecture

(Encyclopedia)baroque bərōkˈ [key], in art and architecture, a style developed in Europe, England, and the Americas during the 17th and early 18th cent. The baroque style is characterized by an emphasis on unity...

IJssel

(Encyclopedia)IJssel īˈsəl [key], river, 72 mi (116 km) long, branching from the Neder Rijn (Lower Rhine) River near Arnhem, E Netherlands, and flowing N into the Ketelmeer (an arm of the IJsselmeer), near Kampe...

Dyck, Sir Anthony van

(Encyclopedia)Dyck, Sir Anthony van: see Van Dyck, Sir Anthony. ...

Faes, Pieter van der

(Encyclopedia)Faes, Pieter van der: see Lely, Sir Peter. ...

Helmont, Jan Baptista van

(Encyclopedia)Helmont, Jan Baptista van yän bäptĭsˈtä vän hĕlˈmônt [key], 1577–1644, Flemish physician, chemist, and physicist. He attributed physiological changes to chemical causes, but his conclusions...