Important museums in Ghent are the Museum voor Schone Kunsten ( Museum of Fine Arts ), with paintings by Hieronymus Bosch, Peter Paul Rubens, and many Flemish masters ; the SMAK or Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst ( City Museum for Contemporary Art ), with works of the 20th century, including Joseph Beuys and Andy Warhol ; and the Design Museum with masterpieces of Victor Horta and Le Corbusier.

* Victor Horta, Art Nouveau architect ( 1861 – 1947 )

Nevertheless, Brussels became one of the major European cities for the development of the Art Nouveau style ( e. g. Victor Horta and Henry van de Velde ).

Victor Horta had a decisive effect on architecture in Belgium.

The historic center of Riga, Latvia, with " the finest collection of art nouveau buildings in Europe ", was included on the list during 1997 in part because of the " quality and the quantity of its Art Nouveau / Jugendstil architecture ", and four Brussels town houses by Victor Horta were included during 2000 as " works of human creative genius " that are " outstanding examples of Art Nouveau architecture brilliantly illustrating the transition from the 19th to the 20th century in art, thought, and society ".

Famous Art Nouveau architects Victor Horta and Henry van de Velde have influenced the early 20th century architecture in Belgium and abroad.

They were designed by Alphonse Balat, with the cooperation of the young Victor Horta.

* Schaerbeek counts a number of art deco and art nouveau houses, including the Maison Autrique, the first house built by Victor Horta in the Brussels area.

The idea of Gesamtkunstwerk in architecture in the era following Romanticism is synonymous with the Art Nouveau ; for example in the works of Josef Hoffmann and Otto Wagner in Austria, Henry van de Velde, Victor Horta and Paul Hankar in Belgium, Charles Rennie Mackintosh in Scotland, Antoni Gaudí in Spain and Eliel Saarinen in Finland.

Some say that Guimard became devoted to this style when he visited the Hôtel Tassel in Brussels, designed by Victor Horta, however of a very different style.

If the skylights favored by Victor Horta are rather absent in his work ( except in his 1910 Mezzara Hotel ), Guimard made noteworthy experiments in space and volume.

First meets Belgian Art Nouveau architect Victor Horta.

Inspired by artists and scientists alike, Schuiten's work can be considered to mix the mysterious worlds of René Magritte, the early scientific fantasies of Jules Verne, the graphical worlds of M. C. Escher and Gustave Doré, and the architectural visions of Victor Horta and Étienne-Louis Boullée.

Schuiten together with Peeters also helped to save and subsequently restore the Maison Autrique, the first house designed by Art Nouveau architect Victor Horta.

Together with Victor Horta and Paul Hankar he could be considered one of the main founders and representatives of Art Nouveau in Belgium.

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* 1898 – Victor Horta designs his own house, now the Horta Museum.

* 1893 – Victor Horta builds what is widely considered the first full-fledged Art Nouveau structure, the Hôtel Tassel, in Brussels.

* 1861 – Victor Horta is born.

* April 2-Maison du Peuple in Brussels, designed by Victor Horta is officially opened ( since destroyed ).

* Victor Horta, Art Nouveau architect ( 1861 – 1947 )

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* 1861 – With the Italian unification almost complete, Victor Emmanuel II of Piedmont, Savoy and Sardinia assumes the title of King of Italy.

The death of her eldest son, Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale, in 1892 was a serious blow to Alexandra, and his room and possessions were kept exactly as he had left them, much as those of Prince Albert were left after his death in 1861.

After the creation of the Italian Kingdom in 1861, Paolo pressed and obtained recognition for Tavolara from Victor Emmanuel II.

On February 18, 1861, Victor Emmanuel assembled the deputies of the first Italian Parliament in Turin.

On March 17, 1861, the Parliament proclaimed Victor Emmanuel II King of Italy, and on March 27, 1861 Rome was declared Capital of Italy, even though it was not actually in the new Kingdom.

Victor Emanuel II ( Vittorio Emanuele Maria Alberto Eugenio Ferdinando Tommaso ; 14 March 1820 – 9 January 1878 ) was king of Sardinia from 1849 until, on 17 March 1861, he assumed the title King of Italy to become the first king of a united Italy since the 6th century, a title he held until his death in 1878.

On 17 March 1861 the Kingdom of Italy was officially established and Victor Emanuel II became its king.

Victor Emanuel supported Giuseppe Garibaldi's Expedition of Thousand ( 1860 – 1861 ), which resulted in the rapid fall of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies in southern Italy.

Another series of plebiscites in the occupied lands resulted in the proclamation of Victor Emanuel as the first King of Italy by the new Parliament of unified Italy, on 17 March 1861.

But when Victor Emmanuel was crowned King of Italy in 1861, his reign did not control Venetia and Lazio.

* Victor Emmanuel II: 1861 – 1878

* Victor Emmanuel II: 1849 – 1861

Victor Emmanuel II in about 1861, from a photograph by the French photographer, André Adolphe Eugene Disderi

* 1 September 1901 – 30 April 1907, Victor Berg ( b. 1861 – d. 1907 )

He was born on July 25, 1839 at Saint-Étienne, Loire, and entered the French Navy, and after voyaging in Brazilian waters and the Pacific, he obtained a post on the staff of Admiral Léonard Victor Charner, who from February 1860 to November 1861 was campaigning in Cochinchina.

Princess Helena of Waldeck and Pyrmont ( Helena Frederica Augusta ; later Duchess of Albany ; 17 February 1861 – 1 September 1922 ), who became a member of the British Royal Family by marriage, was the daughter of George Victor, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont ( regions now in Germany ) and his wife Princess Helena of Nassau ( also in Germany ).

*: Following the unification of Italy under the lead of the Kingdom of Sardinia, King of Sardinia Victor Emmanuel II, member of the House of Savoy, hold the crown of the new kingdom in 1861.

Cavour managed to unite most of Italy under the headship of Victor Emmanuel II of the house of Savoy, and on 17 March 1861, the Kingdom of Italy was proclaimed with Victor Emmanuel II as king.

A similar fate was averted by Italy ; first due to a secular inability of the kings of France and Spain, and the Papacy, to come to terms on how to divide the country, then through the reaction against Habsburg domination which, as late as 1861, finally aligned most of the country's states in support of a national monarchy under King Victor Emmanuel II of the House of Savoy, hitherto king of Sardinia.