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...majority of the nearly 7 million Belgians who went to the polls had chosen continuity over change. Martens' four-party, center-right coalition won 115 seats in the 212-member Chamber of Representatives, up from 113 seats held previously. A Christian Democrat from the country's Dutch- speaking Flemish region, Martens now has a slightly stronger mandate to continue the policies he began upon taking office in 1981. Among them: the deployment in Belgium of 48 U.S.-made, nuclear-armed cruise missiles by 1987. Sixteen of the weapons are already in place...
Dutch and Flemish Paintings from the Permanent Collection: David Stewart, Museum of Fine Arts, noon...
Museum of Fine Arts Gallery Talks: Dutch and Flemish Paintings, 11, Japanese Screens: Form and Function, 7, Infomation Center, West Wing...
...paintings on whose authenticity all experts agree, and his life is obscure. Since the Renaissance there have been few great artists about whom less is known than Watteau. He is almost as much of an enigma as Vermeer. He was born in Valenciennes in 1684, the son of a Flemish roof tiler. Until a few years before, Valenciennes was part of Flanders, not France; and Watteau's Flemish origins may have had more than a casual meaning to him, since the main influence on his work was Rubens. Nothing is known about his political views, family affections or sexual...
...circle of friends in Paris included some of the most cultivated men of the day, such as the financier Pierre Crozat (whose collection of old-master drawings was said to have completed young Watteau's aesthetic education) and the Flemish artist Nicolas Vleughels. But their memoirs of Watteau tend to be short and sometimes contradictory; they blur when the traits of his possibly rather feckless, prickly character present themselves. He seems to have been solitary and misanthropic, though with flashes of antic gaiety: "A good friend but a difficult one," the dealer Edme-François Gersaint unhelpfully...