Artist Eugene Martin's 1996 exhibit in Oudenaarde, Belgium
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The one-person exhibit of paintings and drawings by visual artist Eugene J. Martin took place in the Cultural Center in the Flamboyant Late Gothic Town Hall in Oudenaarde, Belgium, June 1-14, 1996. The town hall and its belfry is an UNESCO World Heritage Site. The town hall was built by Hendrik van Pede, the architect of the Brussels Town Hall, from 1526-1537. Oudenaarde is known as the pearl of the Flemish Ardennes and from the 15th to the 18th century, but especially in the 16th century, Oudenaarde was a world-known center of tapestry production. .
Eugene Martin's art included in the exhibit was created in Washington D.C. and Chapel Hill N.C. Video clip montage by Suzanne Fredericq in Lafayette, LA (Louisiana).
Keyboard Concerto No. 5 in F Minor, BWV 1056, I. Allegro; Keyboard Concerto No. 7 in G minor, BWV 1058 - I. Allegro. Music by Johann Sebastian Bach. Murray Perahia (piano) and the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields. Murray Perahia, conductor. Recorded May 2001, London.
Murray Perahia - Bach Keyboard Concertos Nos. 3, 5, 6, 7. Academy of St. Martin in the Fields.
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Belgium: Impressions of Dendermonde
Dendermonde is located at the mouth of the river Dender, where it flows into the Scheldt.
Places of interest in this town are:
The city hall and belfry that have also been designated a World Heritage Site since 1999.
The belfry houses a carillon and was formerly part of the Cloth Hall.
A Benedictine abbey right in the center of town.
The Dendermonde beguinage is a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1998
Belgium: A few impressions of the city of Lier
Lier is a municipality located in the Belgian province of Antwerp.
The city is situated at the confluence of the Big and Small Nete.
In the Middle Ages it was a prosperous city.
The Grote Markt is flanked by ancient guild houses, an elegant town hall and a belfry.
Bruges, Belgium - Burges City Hall & Burg Square (2018)
The Bruges City Hall is one of the oldest city halls in the entire Netherlands region. It is located in Burg Square (nl), the area of the former fortified castle in the centre of Bruges, Belgium.
After a fire in the city's Belfry in 1280 the old Ghyselhuus, which had already fallen into disuse as the jail of the count of Flanders, became the meeting place for the city council. In 1376 the Ghyselhuus was pulled down and replaced by a new purpose built council building. Count Louis laid the foundation stone. Responsibility for its construction was given Jan Roegiers, and the project was completed, eventually, in 1421. The City Hall is the earliest late Gothic monumental-style municipal council building in Flanders or Brabant: its flamboyant opulence testifies to the city's economic and political power at a time when the population of Bruges is believed to have reached more than 37,000, or even 45,000 people.
The pioneering stone facade of the oldest part, which during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries was several times extended towards the south, inspired in quick succession the city halls of Brussels, Ghent, Leuven and Oudenaarde. The building's admirers highlight the effect of the Brugian span, referring to the abundance of repeating systematically positioned niches encompassing the windows, though it is not clear that this effect was invented in Bruges.
The statues under the stone baldachin-canopies on the building's facade have been renewed several times. At the time of the French Revolution all the statues were destroyed. A small number of genuine pieces are now included in the collections of the city museum. The crenelated facade is topped off with little turrets and the roof is decorated with its own little crests and dormers. In 1766 the door on the left side of the building's facade was repositioned to make the overall effect more symmetrical.
Between 1895 and 1905 the distinguished local architect, Louis Delacenserie and the Gothic Revival champion Jean-Baptiste Bethune started the restoration of the interior. The lesser and greater council chamber were replaced by a single Gothic Hall. The rich decoration of this chamber now offered competition to the elaborate exterior facade. The impressive double vaulted timber ceiling was restored and extended to cover the entire area, while the vaulting over the two eastern bays dates only from the nineteenth century. Medallions in the bosses show New Testament scenes, prophets, evangelists and saints. Decoration of the corbels supporting the roof reflect natural and seasonal themes. On the walls mural paintings by Albrecht De Vriendt (fr) show scenes from the history of Bruges. Like the monumental mantle-pieces these are nineteenth century neo-gothic enhancements. The stone vault from 1766 which had covered the lower level was at the same time replaced by a quasi-historical timber structure, supported by four columns that divide the room into two halves.
Bruges is the capital and largest city of the province of West Flanders in the Flemish Region of Belgium, in the northwest of the country.
The area of the whole city amounts to more than 13,840 hectares, including 1,075 hectares off the coast, at Zeebrugge (from Brugge aan zee,[2] meaning Bruges by the Sea). The historic city centre is a prominent World Heritage Site of UNESCO. It is oval in shape and about 430 hectares in size. The city's total population is 117,073 (1 January 2008), of whom around 20,000 live in the city centre. The metropolitan area, including the outer commuter zone, covers an area of 616 km2 (238 sq mi) and has a total of 255,844 inhabitants as of 1 January 2008.
Along with a few other canal-based northern cities, such as Amsterdam, it is sometimes referred to as the Venice of the North. Bruges has a significant economic importance, thanks to its port, and was once one of the world's chief commercial cities. Bruges is well known as the seat of the College of Europe, a university institute for European studies.
2008 Belgium World Heritage set : The Belfries of Belgium
Euro coin set from Belgium, 2008. Theme : the belfries of Belgium. In the Middle Ages, a lot of cities in Flanders built a belfry as high as possible to show their power. Nowadays, 32 of them are recognised as World Heritage by the Unesco. These are the cities : Aalst - Antwerpen ( 2x ) - Brugge - Dendermonde - Diksmuide - Eeklo - Gent - Herentals - Ieper - Kortrijk - Leuven - Lier - Lo Reninge - Mechelen - Menen - Nieuwpoort - Oudenaarde - Roeselare - Sint Truiden - Tielt - Tienen - Tongeren - Veurne - Zoutleeuw - Bergen - Binche - Charleroi - Doornik - Gembloers - Namen - Thuin. this set contains the 8 euro denominations and a coloured coin.
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Arras
Arras is the capital of the Pas-de-Calais department, which is half of Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France’s fourth most populous region. It is located in Northern France on the Scarpe river. The Arras plain lies on a large chalk plateau bordered on the north by the Marqueffles fault, on the southwest by the Artois and Ternois hills, and on the south by the slopes of Beaufort-Blavincourt. On the east it is connected to the Scarpe valley.
Established during the Iron Age by the Gauls, the town of Arras was first known as Nemetocenna, which is believed to have originated from the Celtic word nemeton, meaning 'sacred space'. The first mention of the name Arras appeared in the 12th century. Some hypothesize it is a contraction of Atrebates, a Belgic tribe of Gaul and Britain that used to inhabit the area. The name Atrebates could have successively evolved to become Atrades, Atradis, Aras and finally Arras. Others believe it comes from the Celtic word Ar, meaning 'running water', as the Scarpe river flows through Arras.
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