Word: breughel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...repetition of the bloody invasion of Antwerp, the Mayor suggests a ruse: he will pretend to be dead and the Aldermen, mourning at his bier, will be spared the necessity of resisting the intruders. When the Spaniards arrive, the men of Boom-except a young painter named Peter Breughel, in love with the Mayor's daughter-are nowhere in sight, but Boom's ladies, disgusted with their chicken-hearted husbands, are waiting outside the gates. They present their guests with the key to the city, and that night, while the Mayor writhes in impotent fury, the Duke...
...grimy, meticulous little man painstakingly copying a 15th-Century panel with layer upon layer of tempera glaze. Wood realized that that was the way he should paint the U. S. scene. Back to Cedar Rapids he went, shaved off his pink whiskers, settled down to being the Breughel of the Com Belt among the dentists, butchers, farmers and shopkeepers with whom he was brought...
...deposits are increasing yearly. The Belgian bank discount rate is 2¼% as compared with 8% for Germany, 4¼% for Britain. Exports almost equal imports. There are only 62,000 unemployed. Antwerp shipping increases yearly, and the city's skyline, almost unchanged since the days of Pieter Breughel and Jan van Eyck, is now stabbed by an up-to-date portentous 20-story skyscraper. The gold coverage of Belgian banknotes is at the proud level...
...also contributing two seventeenth-century flower paintings showing the Dutch tradition as practiced in England and France. Arthur Edwin Bye, of Philadelphia, is lending both a monumental Van Huysum and a canvas of unusual historic interest, containing a medallion by Van Dyck enclosed in a flower wreath by "Velvet" Breughel...