Guernsey
Guernsey
Basic Data
| Official Country Name: |
Guernsey |
| Region (Map name): |
Europe |
| Population: |
64,080 |
| Language(s): |
English, French, Norman-French |
| Literacy rate: |
N/A |
Guernsey and its seven dependent islands are part of the Channel Islands, which sit northwest of France in the English Channel. The islands are the last remnants of the medieval Dukedom of Normandy and the only British soil occupied by Germany in World War II. Today Guernsey is a British Crown Dependency. The British monarch heads the state, and the head of government is a Lieutenant Governor, who is appointed by the monarch. The legislative branch is a unicameral Assembly of States. The population of Guernsey is nearly 65,000. The official language is English, but French is also widely spoken, and a Norman-French dialect is often used in rural districts. Financial services account for more than half of Guernsey's economy—light taxes and death duties make it a popular tax haven. Tourism, manufacturing, tomatoes and cut flowers also contribute to the GNP.
Citizens of Guernsey enjoy the press and speech freedoms of England. The daily newspaper of Guernsey is The Guernsey Press. In 1999, it changed its format from broadsheet to tabloid and shortened its name. It publishes Monday through Saturday, and its circulation is 16,000. Editorial content appears online through the this is guernsey.com Web portal. The newspaper's parent company also publishes the island's weekly, The Globe. This community-oriented, tabloid newspaper appears every Wednesday and has an approximate circulation of 18,000.
Guernsey has one FM radio station, one AM radio station, and one television station. There are two Internet service providers.
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Jenny B. Davis
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DEPARTMENT OF STATE Culturally Significant Objects Imported for Exhibition Determinations: "Frans Snyders' Fishmonger's Shop".
News Wire article from: FedNet Government News; 8/31/2001; 472 words
; ...Delegation of Authority No. 236 of October 19, 1999, as amended, I hereby determine that the object to be exhibited "Frans Snyders' Fishmonger's Shop," imported from abroad for the temporary exhibition without profit within the United States...
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Massachusetts.(art dealers and museums)(Directory)
Magazine article from: Art in America; 1/1/1999; 700+ words
; ...Willson Peale, Joshua Reynolds, Peter Paul Rubens, Frans Snyder, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec 2555. R. Michelson Galleries...Gregg Robinson, Tom Seghi, Mary Sipp-Green, George Snyder, John Stockwell, Fred Wessel 2561. Art Institute of...
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Galleries Museums & Artists. (Massachusetts-New Jersey).(Directory)
Magazine article from: Art in America; 8/1/2002; 700+ words
; ...Willson Peale, Joshua Reynolds, Peter Paul Rubens, Frans Snyder, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec 2680. R. Michelson Galleries...Tom Seghi, Pamela Sienna, Mary Sipp-Green, George Snyder, John Stockwell 2688. Art Institute of Boston at Lesley...
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Antiques: Leafing through life.(News)
Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England); 5/22/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...18th centuries. Swans and does lie like fallen warriors as they await preparation for the dining table in paintings by Frans Snyder and you have fighting cocks in the foreground who are so busy that they have failed to notice a cat is stalking them...
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Museum to Return Plundered Painting; Still Life Was Looted by Nazis
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 11/21/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...the 17th-century Flemish artist Frans Snyders after concluding that the painting...wrenching decision to part with its only Snyders painting is a dramatic illustration...Edgar Stern, who identified the Snyders painting on the National Gallery...
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National Gallery of Art to return painting once in Nazi hands.(Metropolitan)(District)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times; 11/21/2000; 700+ words
; ...1615/1620) by Flemish artist Frans Snyders, is the first the gallery has returned...Gallery trustees voted to return the Snyders painting to what is referred to...Marshal Hermann Goering obtained a Snyders still life, with measurements similar...
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Museum to return art taken by Nazis
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 11/21/2000; ; 682 words
; ...moved to reclaim the painting, by Frans Snyders, after reading about it on the...were told of the presence of their Snyders in the museum by a young member...National Gallery's Web site. The Snyders still life, an oil painting that...
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Rubens and Brueghel: A Working Friendship.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly; 6/22/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...de Clerck, and Hendrick van Balen, and Rubens with Frans Snyders, as well as images that the two artists painted independently...worked collaboratively with Jan Brueghel the Elder, Frans Snyders, and Osias Beert. In her introductory essay, Anne...
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Doctors, nurses learn art of medicine\
Newspaper article from: Post-Tribune (IN); 9/11/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...University of Chicago Medical Center, looks at the Frans Snyders painting "Still Life with Dead Game, Fruits and Vegetables...Here's what the group looked at: Flemish artist Frans Snyders painted an Antwerp marketplace in the early 1600s...
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Sotheby's is resilient, but in a dwindling market
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune; 1/28/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...attribution to Cornelis Saftleven, is now "attributed to Frans Snyders." In auction house conventional language, this means ''could be by Frans Snyders, but we doubt it.'' And who cares? The powerful...
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Frans Snyders
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Frans Snyders , 1579-1657, most celebrated Flemish...was principally influenced by Rubens. Snyders often collaborated with Rubens and Jordaens...paintings of the hunt. The early work of Snyders was largely still life, but he is best...
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Snyders, Frans
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art
Snyders, Frans ( bapt . Antwerp, 11 Nov. 1579; d Antwerp...eventually executor of Rubens's will). Snyders often collaborated with Rubens; he painted...Cornelis de Vos (his brother-in-law). Snyders's independent works confirm him as the...
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Vos, Cornelis de
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art
...Paul de Vos ( b Hulst, ?1595; d Antwerp, 30 June 1678) painted hunting scenes and still-lifes in the style of Frans Snyders , who was the brother-in-law of the de Vos brothers. In 1637 all three helped Rubens execute pictures for the...
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Cornelis de Vos
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...was an excellent painter of animals and hunting scenes. His paintings show the influence of his brother-in-law, Frans Snyders. His work is best seen in the museums of Madrid and St. Petersburg.
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Jan Fyt
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Jan Fyt , 1611-61, Flemish animal and still-life painter and etcher. A pupil of Frans Snyders, Fyt spent 10 years in France and Italy. Returning to Antwerp in 1641, he enjoyed considerable success. He is admired for his...
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