Word: flemish
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...When he flew into Léopoldville last week, he got the kind of ugly welcome that France's Premier Guy Mollet once got in Algiers. Angry white settlers shut up their shops in protest, flew flags of mourning, chalked up slogans saying GO HOME, TRAITOR, and SNUL (Flemish for simpleton). Had the irate settlers had any suspicion what energetic little Maurice Van Hemelrijck was about to do. their slogans might have been a good deal nastier than that...
...FLEMISH PAINTING FROM BOSCH TO RUBENS (Skira; $25) has 112 eye-filling color reproductions, mostly good. Text contains a maximum of mere information and a minimum of thought, as is all too common with art books. The gigantic hero, overshadowing both Bosch and Rubens should of course be Bruegel, but he occupies only 22 pages out of 202, and his essential mysticism is barely hinted. But the pictures show the Bruegel, as Pliny said of Apelles, "painted many things that are really unpaintable...
...what he paid for it. His Renaissance library is now one of Manhattan's handsomest small museums. Author Saarinen calls the place (36th Street and Madison Avenue) "restrained, not opulent; exquisite, not ostentatious. The East Room is regal with lapis lazuli columns flanking the fireplace and with a Flemish 16th century tapestry above it. What unconscious impulse of guilt or pride determined the choice of this particular weaving? It represents The Triumph of Avarice, and it includes one vandal stealing leaves of an illuminated manuscript...
...performed a herculean overnight cleanup job, Belgium's tall, shy King Baudouin, 27, formally opened the first world's fair anywhere since New York's in 1939. Under grey skies and an umbrella of 50 Belgian air force jets, the bespectacled Baudouin proclaimed in French and Flemish: "The aim of this World's Fair is to create an atmosphere of understanding and peace...
...Arts Director Richard S. Davis this week announced the acquisition of a handsome new Easter gift for Minneapolis: Anthony van Dyck's Betrayal of Christ. Bought for an estimated $135,000 from a Manhattan art dealer, the painting is a blazing work done by the 17th century Flemish painter when he was barely 23. It has long been recognized as one of the century's outstanding religious paintings, is ranked by Director Davis as "a breath of genius...