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...Cultural Capital, Lille hopes to attract travelers from farther afield, to the city and its cross-border hinterland: the 2004 program includes festivities in Dunkerque, Calais and Boulogne-sur-Mer on the French coast, and in Courtrai, Mons and Tournai in Belgium. For more information go to www.lille2004.com
...Angers Apocalypse for the Duke of Anjou, could still deliver five tapestries to the Duke of Burgundy in the course of a year argues a none too primitive form of mass production. The locus of this industry was northern France and the Low Countries, and its centers shifted: Tournai, Brussels, Paris, Bruges-and, of course, Arras, the town which bequeathed its name to tapestry itself...
After five weeks of violence and turmoil, most Belgians returned to work last week. In industrial Tournai, railroad workers gathered for one last rousing community sing of the Internationale and then docilely went back to their jobs. In the grimy Borinage mining district, the big wheels at the pit heads resumed hauling elevators to and from the pits...
...fact that it has been unavailable for study has not kept art historians from recognizing it as one of the world's masterworks, painted probably in Tournai at the moment when Western art was undergoing its metamorphosis into the style of the Renaissance. It is discussed with reverence in almost every Belgian art course. Done in oil and brushstroked with a miniaturist's love of detail, the altarpiece (see cut) heralds the trend toward realism and shows in a format only 25⅛-in. tall the donors (left), the Annunciation scene and St. Joseph in his workshop, with...
Last week, with its big show drawing to a close, things were looking up for Tournai's present-day artists and craftsmen. The Belgian government had given Tournai tapestrymakers a 3,500,000-franc order, a new ceramics industry was being planned, the bell foundry was negotiating for a couple of big U.S. orders...