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Frans Floris

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

Frans Floris , c.1517-70, Flemish painter, originally named Frans de Vriendt; son of an Antwerp stonecutter. He studied in Liège and Rome. Returning to Antwerp in 1540, he opened a large school and enjoyed the patronage of William of Orange and of many Flemish and Spanish notables. Floris exemplifies the overpowering influence of Italian mannerists on many Flemish painters of his period. Characteristic are his Last Judgment (Brussels), Adoration of the Shepherds (Dresden), and Fall of the Rebellious Angels (Antwerp). In addition to such ambitious figure compositions, Floris... Read more

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Floris (or Floris de Vriendt). Netherlandish...Antwerp, 20 Oct. 1575) and Frans ( b Antwerp, 1519/20; d Antwerp...the 16th century in Flanders. Frans was a painter and studied with...characterization in a way that anticipates Frans Hals ( Old Lady , 1558, Mus... Read more

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Floris (or Floris de Vriendt). Netherlandish family of artists...brothers Cornelis ( c. 1514–75) and Frans ( c. 1519–70). Both of them spent...building of the 16th century in Flanders. Frans was a painter and studied with Lambert... Read more

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	Anniversaries ; ...writer and editor, 1885. Deaths: Marsilio Ficino, scholar and philosopher, 1499; Pierre Corneille, playwright, 1684; Frans Floris (Frans de Vriendt), painter, 1570; Maarten Jacobsz Heemskerk (Van Veen), painter, 1574; Don John of Austria, soldier... Read more
	Anniversaries TODAY ; ...millionaire, 1759; Annie Besant, social reformer and theosophist, 1847. Deaths: Pierre Corneille, playwright, 1684; Frans Floris (Frans de Vriendt), painter, 1570; Sir Edwin Henry Landseer, painter, 1873. On this day: money orders were first issued... Read more
	De Perugino a Monet, cinco siglos de creaciones. (pintura; otoño cultural del Banco Bilbao Vizcaya; España)(TT: From Perugino to Monet, five centuries of creations) (TA: painting; the cultural fall of Banco Bilbao Vizcaya; Spain) ; ...dramatismo de Tintoretto. Al lado de esos artistas se encuentran otros no menos interesantes, como Lambert Sustris, Frans Floris, Empoli y Arpino, que establecen el nexo entre el siglo XVI y el XVII. A éstos se suman Sacchi, Pozzo, Strozzi... Read more
	Repast of still lifes; Claesz works at National.(ARTS & CULTURE)(ART) ; ...intense colors and translucent light. Before him, as in the Floris van Dijck still life mounted nearby, compositions were stiffer...where he found rich patrons and successful artists such as Frans Hals. Claesz's major works explored tensions between the sensuousness... Read more
	Church repents over wartime silence ; ...entertainer, 1890; Laurence Harvey (Laruska Mischa Skikne), actor, 1928. Deaths: Pierre Corneille, playwright, 1684; Frans Floris (Frans de Vriendt), painter, 1570; John Blow, organist and composer, 1708; Sir Edwin Henry Landseer, painter, 1873. On... Read more
	De Perugino a Monet. (exposición de arte en el Banco Bilbao Vizcaya en Madrid, España)(TT: From Perugino to Monet) (TA: art exhibition in the Banco Bilbao Vizcaya in Madrid, Spain) ; ...Holofernes, de Veronés. Otros importantes artistas cuyas obras se incluyen en la exposición son Lambert Sustris, Frans Floris, Empoli y Arpino. A éstos se suman Sacchi, Carracci, Castiglione, Lucas Jordán, Cavallino, Panini y Giandomenico... Read more
	Buhrmann NV to acquire corporate express ; ...company will be in Amsterdam. Buhrmann's executive board will remain unchanged and is comprised of Frans Koffrie (chairman) and George Dean. Floris Waller will join the company as CFO on September 1, 1999. The combined North American operation will... Read more
	(book review) ; ...motets may have been assembled as an apologia for the disgraced composer, and Kate van Orden considers a painting by Frans Floris in relation to shifting ideals of kingship between the reigns of Charles and Philip II. Part 3 ( Charles V: A Life Story... Read more
	(book reviews) ; ...of book illustrations, notably the prolific illustrator Bernard Salomon. N.E. Sebrennikov compares the allegories of Frans Floris and Pieter Bruegel the Elder, working in Antwerp in the 1560s, who defended the maker of images as a practitioner of... Read more
	Winning and Losing: A Collector Who Dared ; ...theby's New York in 1996, he had the wit to go after ''An Allegory of Peace'' by another 16th-century painter from Antwerp, Frans Floris, who was among the first Flemish painters to travel to Rome. The Italian influence, superbly assimilated, comes out... Read more

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