Word: burgundian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Great Dukes. The century on display was the age of the Burgundian dukes, Philip the Good and Charles the Bold, who by marriage and conquest so augmented their insignificant duchy that they came to be known as "the Great Dukes of the Occident." In Bruges, Venetians and Genoese, Danes and Swedes met to trade, and from all over the Low Countries great painters came-Jan van Eyck, Petrus Christus, Hans Memling, Gerard David, and the three artists known today only as the masters of Flémalle, of the St. Ursula legend, and of the Tiburtine Sibyl...