Word: holland
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...Holland in the 17th century was a painter's dream, where art was bought and sold in the public marketplace. Collecting was popular among the middle classes, and it was not rare to find paintings throughout the rooms of farm houses or in the local bakery. The Dutch favored landscapes because they were familiar, and most 17th century masters away from allegorical subjects. The universal demand for art prompted a great outgoing of works, and it is little wonder that historians have been slow at sorting out the artists While Ruisdael has been one of the neglected landscapists...
...building, but the scene of a fantastic history. Ruisdael painted the castle at least five times, and his intrigue with the ruins--which the Prince of Orange destroyed to prevent it from falling into the hands of Spanish invaders--suggests that for him the castle was an emblem of Holland's successful fight for independence from the Spaniards...
...Rursdael's heroes were not the men and women of Holland, but the country itself; the rolling and woody terrain, the castles, cities fields rivers and the sea. He is famous for glorifying trees and windmills making these subjects the principle figures of his works. In A Blasted Elm with a View of Egmond aan Zee the city serves as a backdrop to the twisted and torn elm in the foreground. Ruisdael's most famous painting. The Windmill at Wijk bij Duurstede, may be as close to portraiture as Rusidael comes--with a three quarter profile of a windmill...
Commissions for Giugiaro now seem to come in faster than the awards Ital Design keeps winning. They include a new electric razor for N.V. Philips of Holland, a television set for Saba of Germany, an electronic scale for Yamato Scale Co. of Japan and the interior for a personal helicopter for the President of Italy...
Although the department received the additional money from the reserve fund the city has set aside, normally, "they would be expected to transfer funds from other parts of their budget," David E. Holland, a city budget analyst, said yesterday...