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unusual facts about Flemish



1582 in music

March - Severin Cornet, Franco-Flemish singer, conductor and composer (born c.1530)

1593 in music

Franco-Flemish Renaissance master Orlande de Lassus composed The Tears of Saint Peter (1593–1594), dedicated to Pope Clement VIII: it was the final work of Lassus and considered, by some, the absolute summit of the 16th-century Italian madrigal.

1600 in art

Simon Pereyns, Flemish painter who worked in Portugal, Spain, and Mexico (born 1530)

1609 in art

Giusto Utens, Flemish painter of a series of Medicean villas (born unknown)

Belgian Cancer Registry Foundation

The Belgian Cancer Registry Foundation, a joint initiative of the national, Brussels, Flemish and Wallonian governments, was founded on 28 June 2005 and officially inaugurated on 17 May 2006 in the presence of the ministers Rudy Demotte, Catherine Fonck and Inge Vervotte.

Belgian Resistance

The resistance included both men and women, from both Walloon and Flemish parts of the country.

Most of the resistance was focused in the French-speaking areas of Belgium (Wallonia and the city of Brussels), though Flemish involvement in the resistance was also significant.

Bobbejaanland

It was founded by Bobbejaan Schoepen, a Flemish singer, guitarist, and entertainer who enjoyed international popularity in the fifties and early sixties.

Brumel

Antoine Brumel (c.1460–c.1515), Franco-Flemish Renaissance composer

Celle di Macra

The churches of San Giovanni has a 1496 polyptych by the Flemish master Hans Clemer, who worked in the court of the Marquis of Saluzzo.

Cornelis Schut

From 13 January 1627 he collaborated with the painter Tyman Arentsz. Cracht on frescoes in the villa "Casino Pescatore" located in Frascati, owned by Giorgio Pescatori (aka Pieter de Vischere), a wealthy Italian banker and patron of Flemish descent.

De Grote Sprong

De Grote Sprong is a Flemish reality television series broadcast on VTM, based on the Celebrity Splash! format created by Dutch company Eyeworks.

Economy of Belgium

Indeed, Flemish and Walloon economies differ in many respects (consider for instance Eurostats and OECD statistics), and cities like Brussels, Antwerp, Liège, Bruges, Charleroi or Ghent also exhibit significant differences.

ERPs

Erps-Kwerps, village in the Belgian Province of Flemish Brabant

Eyal Levi

His father, Yoel Levi, is a well known conductor and is currently the music advisor to the Flemish Radio Orchestra and is the Principal Guest Conductor of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra.

Flemish Sign Language

On 26 April 2006, the Flemish Parliament unanimously recognised the Flemish Sign Language as a language in Flanders.

Georges van Vrekhem

Georges Van Vrekhem (Wakken, 28 March 1935 – Auroville, 31 August 2012) was a Flemish-speaking Belgian journalist, poet and playwright, who was the artistic manager of a professional theater company, the "Nederlands Toneel te Gent".

Gheeraerts

Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder (c. 1520 – c. 1590), Flemish printmaker and painter

Goldthorpe

According to Pevsner, the pulpit bought by the church in 1931 is 18th century Flemish.

Hallo K3

"Hallo K3" is the first single to be released from Flemish/Dutch girl group K3's eleventh studio album Eyo!.

Hans G. Kresse

The comic first appeared in the Flemish newspaper Het Laatste Nieuws, and was later also published in the Netherlands and in Wallonia in French.

Jacob Backer

Jacob de Backer (c. 1555–c. 1585), Flemish Mannerist painter and draughtsman

Jean Kluger

He wrote widely for the French, Flemish and German pop music markets, including songs for Bobbejaan Schoepen, Dalida, Will Tura, Ringo and Petula Clark.

Jef Valkeniers

As a Dutch member of parliament, he was also a member of the Flemish Cultural Council (forerunner Flemish Parliament).

Johan Van Mullem

Johan Van Mullem was born in Isiro in the Democratic Republic of Congo to Flemish parents, but spent much of his childhood following his diplomat father from country to country.

John Nutt

He soon organized a small crew with whom he seized a small French fishing boat as well as two other French ships (another account claims the ships were English and Flemish) during the summer of 1621 before returning to the western coast of England.

Jozef Van Hoorde

When the Flemish weekly Het Volksbelang was founded in 1867, by Julius Vuylsteke, he was one of the editors together with Julius Sabbe, Julius De Vigne, and Adolf Hoste.

Karl Proske

Proske was a pioneer in the field, and the fact that his editions reflected only the German, Flemish, and Italian repertoires - excluding Spaniards for the most part, though he did include Victoria - does not diminish his amazing contributions to Sacred music.

Loco, Switzerland

The church is also the home of a Last Supper painting by the Flemish painter Godefridus Maes from 1683.

Louis Marie Cordonnier

In Lille the architect's Flemish Chamber of Commerce building of 1910-1921 stands twenty paces away from his Beaux-Arts Opéra de Lille of 1903-1914, its design said to be inspired by Garnier's Paris Opera.

There his neo-Flemish entry won a design competition against far more modern competitors like Hendrik Berlage and Otto Wagner.

Merho

Contrary to the other major Flemish newspapers like De Standaard/Het Nieuwsblad (with Spike and Suzy) and Het Volk (with Nero), Het Laatste Nieuws had no local, Flemish comic strip but only published Dutch comics by Marten Toonder or Hans G. Kresse, which left an opportunity for Merho.

Nicholas Trübner

His own works include, besides the catalogues and bibliographies already mentioned, translations from Flemish of Hendrik Conscience's Sketches of Flemish Life, 1846, from German of part of Brunnhofer's Life of Giordano Bruno, Scheffel's Die Schweden in Rippoldsau, and Eckstein's Eternal Laws of Morality; and a memoir of Joseph Octave Delepierre, Belgian consul in London, whose daughter he married.

Nivelles-Baulers

Built in 1971, the circuit hosted two rounds of the Formula One Belgian Grand Prix in 1972 and 1974 during the time when the race was supposed to alternate between Walloon and Flemish circuits.

One Detroit Center

The building is famous for its postmodern architectural design topped with Flemish-inspired neo-gothic spires which blend architecturally with the city's historic skyline.

Refectory table

Later in the 16th century the secular refectory table spread to Flemish and German locales.

Reimond Tollenaere

Reimond Tollenaere (Oostakker June 29, 1909 – Koptsy, near Veliki Novgorod January 22, 1942) was an SS-Untersturmführer (Second Lieutenant) and member of the Vlaams Nationaal Verbond (V.N.V.), a right-wing Flemish nationalist party.

Ritzen

Peter Ritzen (born 1956), Flemish pianist composer and conductor

Schäferpfeife

This Flemish bagpipe is also known as schäferpfeife, as it is similar in appearance.

St Mary's Church, Bungay

This contains a 17th-century Flemish panel depicting the Resurrection that was given to the church by the author H. Rider Haggard.

Susanne van Soldt Manuscript

The Susanne van Soldt Manuscript is a keyboard anthology dated 1599 consisting of 33 pieces copied by or for a young Flemish or Dutch girl living in London.

Thompson Memorial Library

Below the frieze of seals in the central hall hang five seventeenth-century Flemish Gobelin tapestries portraying Apuleius' romance of Cupid and Psyche.

Triple Espresso

The production in Belgium was the first foreign-language version of the show, playing in the city of Ghent, in Flemish.

Ulmus 'Lobel'

The tree is named for Matthias de L'obel, the Flemish botanist also commemorated by the genus Lobelia.

Van der Voort

Michael Pauluzen Van der Voort (c. 1615–1690), Flemish early resident of New Amsterdam

Verdigris

This degradation is to blame for the brown or bronze color of grass or foliage in many old paintings, although not typically those of the "Flemish primitive" painters such as Jan van Eyck, who often used normal verdigris.

Vtm

vtm or Vlaamse Televisie Maatschappij (English: Flemish Television Company) is the main commercial television station in Flanders, the Dutch-speaking north of Belgium and forms part of a network of channels owned by Vlaamse Media Maatschappij (VMMa).

Willemsfonds

Over the years it published the work of several Flemish authors, such as Jan Frans Willems Reinaert de Vos and Julius de Geyter, Johanna Courtmans-Berchmans, Tony Bergmann, Cyriel Buysse, Virginie Loveling, Maurits Sabbe, Paul Kenis, Karel Jonckheere, Marcel van Maele, Willem Roggeman, and Clem Schouwenaars.

William of Jülich

William of Jülich (The Younger) (Dutch: Willem van Gulik (de Jongere)) (unknown - August 18, 1304) was one of the Flemish noblemen that opposed the annexation policies of the French king Philip IV - together with Pieter de Coninck.

Zamora Cathedral

The Cathedral Museum, in the 17th century cloister, is notable particularly for its fine Flemish tapestries of the 15th-17th centuries depicting scenes from the Trojan War, Hannibal's Italian campaign and the life of Tarquin, the Etruscan king of Rome.


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