Word: flemish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Watteau often painted such personalities in commedia dell' arte costumes, for the masquerade was the sign and symbol of his era. To capture its magic, the Flemish-born painter had run away to Paris at the age of 18, then studied with Stage Designer Claude Gillot and Interior Decorator Claude Audran before striking out on his own. The times cried out for a chronicler. After the aged Sun King, Louis XIV died in 1715, French society, under the leadership of the dissolute regent, the Due d'Orleans, gave itself over to a rabid pursuit of pleasure, rivaling that...
CAMERA THREE (CBS, 11-11:30 a.m.). Gilbert Highet, critic, scholar and author, attempts to solve a minor but amusing artistic puzzle concerning the identity of the bridegroom in Peasant Wedding, a 16th century painting by Flemish Master Pieter Bruegel...
...tract of land that he owned halfway between Paris and Fontainebleau, he spared no expense. He summoned Louis Le Vau, the leading architect of the day, Charles Le Brun, a painter and interior decorator, and a landscape designer named André Le Nôtre. A special workshop with Flemish artisans was set up nearby at Maincy to execute Le Brun's tapestry designs. The chateau's 105 rooms were furnished with armchairs of Chinese plush and Persian carpets, vermilion and silver vases, crystal chandeliers and gold clocks...
...Brazil, Japan and The Netherlands and in such normally placid places as Denmark, Switzerland and West Germany. Student protests have led to the temporary closing of at least three dozen universities in the U.S., Italy, Spain, Tunisia, Mexico, Ethiopia and other countries. Belgian student demonstrations, fanning the old Flemish-v.-Walloon controversy, brought the government down. Egyptian students, marching in spontaneous protest against government inefficiency, obliged Gamal Abdel Nasser to rearrange his Cabinet. Communist Poland put down street demonstrations, but only after suspending more than 1,000 rebellious students. More successful were Czechoslovakia's students: their protests were...
Victory Marches. Defiant Flemish students, feeling a step closer to their goal, staged victory marches through the cobblestoned streets of Louvain, chanting Flemish slogans and bringing out the cops again. "Whenever the language issue crops up in this country," noted Vanden Boeynants sadly, "passion takes over." Language is the surface issue, but the root of the crisis goes far deeper. The Flemish bitterly resent more than a century of domination by prosperous, influential Walloons, who constituted a majority of the Belgian population until World War II. Since then, huge foreign investments in less-developed Flanders and a higher Flemish birth...