Good examples are the cities established by various rulers in the south of France and city expansions in old Dutch and Flemish cities.

* The Saint-Brice church of Tournai, dedicated to Saint Britius, is one of the first examples of the hallekerk style, so typical of the Flemish countryside.

Some of the earliest examples of still life were paintings of flowers by Northern Renaissance, Dutch, and Flemish painters.

Note the projecting keyboard, unlike the inset Flemish examples.

Early Italian virginals were usually hexagonal in shape, the case following the lines of the strings and bridges, and a few early Flemish examples are similarly made.

The IJzertoren site is also the burial place of some Flemish soldiers killed on the battlefield, who have become examples and heroes for Flanders.

Nicholas street and Mary Street the medieval center of Limerick contained many examples of medieval buildings including tall gabled houses in the Flemish or Dutch fashion.

There are examples with wooden covers with a metal handle, such as the Flemish and German mazers in the Franks Bequest in the British Museum.

This is one of the most lavishly illuminated examples, commissioned by Louis of Gruuthuse, a Flemish nobleman and bibliophile.

Underneath all the high-sounding phrases of royal and papal letters and behind the more down-to-earth instructions to the envoys was the inescapable fact that Edward would have to desert his Flemish allies and leave them to the vengeance of their indignant suzerain, the king of France, in return for being given an equally free hand with the insubordinate Scots.

Various collections of such recipes have been published in book form in Esperanto, e. g. Internacie kuiri (“ Cooking Internationally ”) by Maria Becker-Meisberger, published by FEL ( Flemish Esperanto League ), Antwerp 1989, ISBN 90-71205-34-7, Manĝoj el sanigaj plantoj (“ Healthy Vegetable Dishes ”) by Zlata Nanić, published by BIO-ZRNO, Zagreb 2002, ISBN 953-97664-5-1.

Harpsichords have been decorated in a great many different ways: with plain buff paint ( e. g. some Flemish instruments ), with paper printed with patterns, with leather or velvet coverings, with chinoiserie, or occasionally with highly elaborate painted artwork.

" One notable contrast with the speeches recorded by Robert the Monk, Guibert of Nogent and Baldric of Dol is the lesser emphasis on Jerusalem itself, which Urban only once mentions as his own focus of concern: in the letter to the Flemish he writes, " they Turks have seized the Holy City of Christ, embellished by his passion and resurrection, and blasphemy to say — have sold her and her churches into abominable slavery.

* Vlaams Parliament (" Flemish Parliament "; originally styled Vlaamse Raad " Flemish Council ") served both the Flemish Community ( whose same it uses ) and, in application of a Belgian constitutional option, of the region of Flanders ( in all matters of regional competence, its decisions have no effect in Brussels )

It was a tight battle ; Philip was unhorsed by the Flemish pikemen in the heat of battle, and were it not for his plate mail armour in which he was encased, he would probably have been killed.

Proverbs that have their origin in Spanish have migrated to and from English, French, Flemish, German and other languages.

The three-party ( i. e. six plus some purely Flemish and Walloon parties ) political systems got disturbed by the Green parties ( the Dutch-speaking Agalev, now Groen !, and the French-speaking Ecolo ) in the 1980s which took a lot of influence after the Marc Dutroux Scandal and the " dioxin affair ", a food scandal ( chickens containing dioxin levels far above the maximum allowed ) which would not have had any major repercussions, had it not erupted just days before the elections.

It has been claimed the Flemish Bernard van Orley worked for Raphael for a time, and Luca Penni, brother of Gianfrancesco, may have been a member of the team.

Both the chapel and the salle du Tau have decorative tapestries of the 17th century, known as the Perpersack tapestries, after the Flemish weaver who executed them.

While the region is predominantly French-speaking, it also has two significant minority language communities: the western Flemings, whose presence is evident in the many Dutch placenames in the area and who speak West Flemish, a dialect of Dutch ( perhaps 20, 000 inhabitants of Nord-Pas-de-Calais use Flemish daily and an estimated 40, 000 use it occasionally, both, primarily in and around the arrondissement of Dunkirk ); and the Picards, who speak the Picard language, or Ch ' ti ( speakers, " chitimi ", have been working to revive the nearly-extinct regional speech since the 1980s ).

Most artists of the period ( like Bruegel ) are described as Flemish, even though they might have been born in the present day Netherlands.

The Deputy Governor is appointed by the Flemish Government on the unanimous advice of the Federal Council of Ministers and must have a considerable knowledge of both the Dutch and the French language.

Six political parties have seats in the Provincial Council: Christian Democratic and Flemish / New-Flemish Alliance ( CD & V / N-VA, 25 seats ), Open Flemish Liberals and Democrats ( Open VLD, 17 seats ), Vlaams Belang ( 15 seats ), Socialist Party – Different-Spirit ( SP. A-Spirit, 14 seats ), Groen!

The nickname may have been a combined reference to the Swiss politician Besançon Hugues ( died 1532 ) and the religiously conflicted nature of Swiss republicanism in his time, using a clever derogatory pun on the name Hugues by way of the Flemish word Huisgenoten ( literally housemates ), referring to the connotations of a somewhat related word in German Eidgenosse ( Confederates: i. e. A Citizen of Switzerland ) Geneva was John Calvin's adopted home and the center of the Calvinist movement.

Flemish Belgian comic books ( originally written in Dutch ) are influenced by francophone comics, yet have a distinctly different style.

The result was the album Ne me quitte pas ( Don't leave me ), which contained the title track, " Marieke ", " Les Flamandes " ( Flemish women ), " Quand on a que l ’ amour " ( When you only have love ), " Les biches " ( The does ), " Le moribond " ( The dying one ), " La valse à mille temps " ( The waltz a thousand times as fast ), and " Je ne sais pas " ( I don't know ).

A truly scientific discussion would also include discussion of the different cultures of Belgian ethnic minorities, such as the Jews who have formed a remarkable component of Flemish culture — in particular that of Antwerp — for over five hundred years.

Already with the 2006 municipal elections, the VLD showed signs of fatigue with the Flemish voter, who seem to have had enough of eight years of Verhofstadt, and the purple coalition governments.

Small bronze figures for collector's cabinets, often mythological subjects with nudes, were a popular Renaissance form at which Giambologna, originally Flemish but based in Florence, excelled in the later part of the century, also creating life-size sculptures, of which two joined the collection in the Piazza della Signoria.

Rather confusingly, genre works, especially when referring to the painting of the Dutch Golden Age and Flemish Baroque painting-the great periods of genre works-may also be used as an umbrella term for painting in various specialized categories such as still-life, marine painting, architectural painting and animal painting, as well as genre scenes proper where the emphasis is on human figures.

Walsingham also states that Straw and his followers murdered both notable local figures in Bury and, after reaching the capital, several of its Flemish residents, an accusation also made by Froissart.

In that year, Antonello painted the so-called Salting Madonna, in which standard iconography and Flemish style are backed by a greater attention in the volumetric proportions of the figures, probably coming from his knowledge of some works by Piero della Francesca.

Pythagoras Advocating Vegetarianism ( 1618-20 ), by Peter Paul Rubens ( figures ) and Frans Snyders ( still life ), mixing history painting and still life in a way typical of Flemish Baroque painting.

* Sixteenth century Flemish artist imitated the figures or entire compositions found in the calendar ( Cazelles and Rathofer 1988 )

From his arrival in London in 1720, the Flemish sculptor John Michael Rysbrack was the leader in his field until the arrival in 1730 of Louis-François Roubiliac who had a Rococo style which was highly effective in busts and small figures, though by the following decade he was also commissioned for larger works.

What is most " Flemish " of Holbein's use of oils is his use of the medium to render meticulous details that are mainly symbolic: as Jan van Eyck and the Master of Flemalle used extensive imagery to link their subjects to divinity, Holbein used symbols to link his figures to show the same things on the table.

White's watercolors would soon become a sensation in Europe and it was not long before the paintings were engraved by the Flemish master engraver Theodore de Bry, and through the medium of print, became widely known and distributed ; published in 1590 under the title " America ".

Maastricht is situated on both sides of the Meuse river ( Dutch: Maas ) in the south-eastern part of the Netherlands, on the Belgian border ( with both the Dutch-speaking Flemish and French-speaking Walloon region within easy reach from the city centre ) and near the German border.

The Town Hall ( converted first to an arts centre, then a bar, and now empty ) is a Victorian blend of Italian and Flemish influences set in a small market square.

The Dutch rearguard under Lieutenant-Admiral Cornelis Tromp set upon a starboard tack, taking the battle toward the Flemish shoals, compelling Albemarle to turn about, to prevent being outflanked by the Dutch rear and centre, culminating in a ferocious unremitting battle that raged until nightfall.

Examples include the Raffinerie, a former sugar refinery that is now the site of a cultural and modern dance complex ; the Fonderie, a former smelter that is now home to a labour and industry museum ; the Bottelarij, a bottling plant which was housing the Royal Flemish Theatre during the renovation of the theatre in the centre of Brussels ; and the most impressive Tour & Taxis building and surrounding area, which will be turned into various residences, as well as commercial enterprises.

During the 19th century, Ninove became industrialized and by the time of the First World War, the city became the centre of the Flemish match industry.

On 23 January 2009, a 20 year old Flemish man named Kim de Gelder attacked a children's daycare centre in the village of Sint-Gillis-bij-Dendermonde, stabbing three people to death and wounding as many as twenty.

Wezembeek-Oppem is a municipality in the Belgian province of Flemish Brabant, ten kilometres east of the centre of Brussels.

Generally, however, the Volksunie preferred to position itself around the centre and saw itself as a coalition of various shades of Flemish thought.

Noted as a former mill town, Bolton has been a production centre for textiles since Flemish weavers settled in the area during the 15th century, developing a wool and cotton weaving tradition.

However, first with Willy Claes, then Frank Vandenbroucke and with Erik Derycke as Foreign Minister, all three Flemish Socialists, the party made a significant shift to the centre adopting less controversial stances on foreign policy issues.

on the Flemish side, and PS, CDH ( nominally Christian Democrat but very much left of centre ) and the green party Ecolo on the Francophone side.

Among French speaking Belgians the Humanist Democratic Centre is a centre-right or centre party as it is considerably less conservative than its Flemish counterpart, Christian Democratic & Flemish.

::* 1 special French-speaking school for sick children ( falling under a different law ) in the Flemish municipality ( not with language facilities ) of De Haan / Le Coq, linked with the paediatric medical centre of Zeepreventorium.

29, 104 students are enrolled ( in 2007 ) at all study or support centres in the Netherlands, including students who live in other parts of the world ; in 2003, 1, 991 students were enrolled at a Flemish study centre.

This independence of the Flemish school he owed in part perhaps to his studies at the University of Paris and to the study of the Italian poets at Lyon, a centre of the French Renaissance.

The centre also receives money from the Flemish Government.